Poetic Structures

What is an anaphora?

• Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of each line

• a repeated word, phrase, or grammatical pattern

• a collection of people, objects, ideas, or other items in list form

What is catalogues?

• Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of each line

• a repeated word, phrase, or grammatical pattern

• a collection of people, objects, ideas, or other items in list form

What is parallelism?

• Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of each line

• a repeated word, phrase, or grammatical pattern

• a collection of people, objects, ideas, or other items in list form

What poetic structure is present in the poem below?

Glory be to God for dappled things –

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

• anaphora

• catalogues

• parallelism

• anaphora and parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device: The phone was ringing, the dishes were washing, and the dinner was burning.

• anaphora

• catalogues

• parallelism

• none of these

Identify the rhetorical device: Lily likes eating M&Ms and binge-watching series on Netflix.

• anaphora

• catalogues

• parallelism

• none of these

Identify the rhetroical device:

"It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

It was the age of wisdom,

it was the age of foolishness . . ."

• - A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens

• anaphora

• parallelsim

• both anaphora and parallelism

• none of these

What is this an example of?

I'ma tell you how's it's lookin'
I got rice and beans
Got mac and cheese
Got collard greens
Got pork and beets

• anaphora and parallelism

• parallelism and catalogues

• anaphora and catalogues

• parallelism, anaphora, and catalogues

Which sentence is parallel?

• The best places to eat are casual, fun, and inexpensive.

• The best places to eat are casual, fun, and you can eat for not a lot of money.

• The best places to eat are inexpensive, fun, and you don't have to dress up.

• The best places to eat are not dressy, there's something to do, and the food isn't expensive.

Journey won't date Terrick because he is too short, ___, and too noisy.

• unattractive

• not that cute

• too impolite