The Kraken

The following line of The Kraken includes which descriptive element?

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

• Rule of Three (Triple)

• Personification

• Adjectives

• All of the above

A literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue. Such consonants produce hissing sounds.

The poem emphasizes the size of the Kraken with the continued use of synonyms.

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages, and will lie

Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,

This is a form of:

• Simile

• Repetition

• Sibiliance

• Rule of Three

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides; above him swell

The words in green are:

• Shakespearean

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Incomprehensible

What is the Kraken doing in the this poem

• Sleeping on the bottom of the sea

• Waiting for a boat to attack

• Rising to scare the sailors

• Dying

Draw a picture of the Kraken