Poetic Techniques

The gaping girls gathered as he strutted by

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Sibilance

Which of the following is an example of caesura?

• We see the newsreels when we dine in town./

• Dull would he be of soul who could pass by/ A sight so touching in its majesty;/

• In this country, Jamaica is not quite as far/

Which of the following is an example of kinesthetic imagery?

• slowly I would rise and dress

• When the rooms were warm ,he'd call

• A red dot punctuated the center of her brow

The angry wind lashed the trees, forcing them to bend to its will.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Pathetic fallacy

You cannot understand, not yet, the hurt your easy tears can scald him with

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Pathetic fallacy

Tossing up things on its tail/Like a madman chasing nothing

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Pathetic fallacy

Which of the following is an example of auditory imagery?

• ...flies/ that buzz and drip over a something

• ...that green plum turning fat and/ crimson

• The orchids have no fragrance

Which of the following is an example of tactile imagery?

• squeeze till the flesh turn syrup

• your laughter metamorphosed into howls

• They stand not straight but bowed ever so

Which of the following is an example of visual imagery?

• the cold wind blew in

• jagged blinding flashes

• screams of delighted children

Which of the following is an example of enjambment?

• into her veins. When her eyes return to me,/

• His voice strains past walls/ where time gnaws on long/

• On day she will speak her own words./