Poetic Devices English 9

Identify the poetic device:

Romance Edgar Allan Poe

Romance, who loves to nod and sing,

With drowsy head and folded wing,

Among the green leaves as they shake

Far down within some shadowy lake,

• denotation

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

The denotative meaning of the word odor

• smell

• fragrance

• scent

• foul

Which word describing a leader has the most positive connotative meaning?

• Aggressive

• Assertive

• Domineering

• Pushy

Identify the underlined portion:

Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• Metaphor

• simile

Identify the poetic device:

“All the world is a stage

All men and women merely players”

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• consonance

His opponent was looking for his Achilles’ heel to beat him.

• diction

• hyperbole

• rhyme

• allusion

Identify the poetic device

In a house the size of a postage stamp

lived a man as big as a barge.

His mouth could drink the entire river

You could say it was rather large

For dinner he would eat a trillion beans

And a silo full of grain,

Washed it down with a tanker of milk

As if he were a drain.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Identify the Poetic Device:

“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;

• alliteration

• rhyme

• contrast

What is diction?

• the repetition of the same sound at beginnings of words

• the repetition of rhyme

• the dictionary definition

• the choice and use of words and phrases to impact meaning

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,”

• consonance

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile