Poetic Devices 2024

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.

The Stanza above is taken from...

• D.H. Lawrence’s Piano

• Adriane Rich’s Piano

• Jennifer’s Tiger

• Adriane Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger

The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand. What does “The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band” symbolize?

• The husband holds the power in the relationship, leaving Aunt Jennifer in the subservient role.

• The Happy wedding

• They want to reach their bright future

• The Brave Tiger

Why, what art thou, thou bold fellow, That ranges so boldly here? In sooth, to be brief, thou lookst like a thief, That comes to steal our king's deer.

The stanza above is taken from…

• Robin Hood and the Tanner

      

• Ode to Nightingale

• Beowulf

• The Song of Wandering Aengus

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

The stanza lines above are from…

• Ozymandias    

• King of King

• Song of Myself

• Ode to the west Wind

On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing...enjoying the jungle’s great joys... When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.

The passage is an example of the following meter form:

• Anapest

       

• Iamb

• Dactyl

• trochee

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

The passage is an example of the following meter form:

• Anapest

• Iamb          

• Dactyl        

• Trochee

A poetic device in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently.

• Eye Rhyme

• Slanted rhyme

• Masculine rhyme 

• Feminine rhyme

“Lightning danced across the sky.” Is an example of what figurative language?

•  Personification           

• Simile                       

• Metaphor

• Paradox

“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” What figurative language can you find in the lines above?

• Irony

• Paradox

• Allegory

• Oxymoron

Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pour the notes along, For bright Aurora now demands my song.

The Stanza above is taken from…

• Morning Hymne

• An Hymn to the Morning

• Morning Never Come

• Ode to the West Morning