"The Hill We Climb" Poetic Techniques

"We are striving to forge a union with purpose,

to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and

conditions of man."

The sound effect in this example is...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"then victory won't lie in the blade.

But in all the bridges we've made,

that is the promise to glade"

The sound effect in these lines is...

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

He fancied himself a modern-day Sherlock, solving mysteries in the office.

• Assonance

• theme

• diction

• allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"If we merge mercy with might,

and might with right,

then love becomes our legacy,

and change our children's birthright."

These lines exemplify the poet's use of...

• imagery

• sound effects

• organization

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The poem's "tone" can be be described as...

• the message

• imagery

• the feeling/emotion conveyed

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

that even as we grieved, we grew,

that even as we hurt, we hoped,

that even as we tired, we tried,

• Anaphora

• end rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

we've weathered and witnessed (Line 14)

to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and

conditions of man (lines 27-28)

blunders become their burdens

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• theme

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The voice that we hear in a poem is called...

• the narrator

• the speaker

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west.

We will rise from the windswept northeast,

where our forefathers first realized revolution.

We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states.

We will rise from the sunbaked south.

• Anaphora and imagery

• Simile and metaphor

• alliteration and motif

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Where do we look to find a poem's theme?

• The word choice

• Figurative Language

• The poem's title and the final verse or final line.

• I use Google.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2