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    This document provides definitions for 10 common poetic devices: alliteration, allusion, assonance, consonance, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, and simile. It then presents 10 short excerpts from poems and asks the reader to identify which poetic devices are being used in each, providing multiple choice answers. The purpose is to help students learn to identify different types of figurative language in poetry.

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    POETIC DEVICES Worksheet 1

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    This document provides definitions for 10 common poetic devices: alliteration, allusion, assonance, consonance, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, and simile. It then presents 10 short excerpts from poems and asks the reader to identify which poetic devices are being used in each, providing multiple choice answers. The purpose is to help students learn to identify different types of figurative language in poetry.

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    POETIC DEVICES

    ENGLISH 10
    Section A: Match the poetic device on the left to its definition on the right.

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8.
    9.
    10.

    alliteration _____
    allusion _____
    assonance _____
    consonance _____
    hyperbole _____
    metaphor _____
    onomatopoeia _____
    personification ____
    repetition _____
    simile _____

    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.
    F.
    G.
    H.
    I.
    J.
    K.

    the exaggeration of the truth


    words that sound like a natural sound
    comparison of two things without using like or as
    comparison of two things using like or as
    giving human features to an object
    repetition of initial consonants
    repetition of vowel sounds
    repetition of initial and internal consonants
    repeated use of the same word
    reference to a famous historical or literary event/person

    Read each of the following extracts. Identify the poetic device being used by the author.
    1.

    I keep your picture in my drawer


    Like a painted souvenir of something more.

    2.

    Love is a ship we all hope to steer


    Through troubled times
    Cross an ocean of fear.

    3.

    But he grew old


    This knight so bold
    And oer his heart a shadow.

    4.

    Continuous as a star that shines


    They stretched in a never-ending line.
    (Two devices)

    5.

    A slumber did my spirit seal;


    I had no human fears:
    She seemed a thing that could not feel
    The touch of earthly years.
    (Two devices)

    6.

    Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won


    by Philips war-like son.

    7.

    Happy happy happy pair!


    None but the brave
    None but the brave
    None but the brave deserve the fair.

    8.

    With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz


    Between the light and me.

    9.

    WAKE! For the Hack can scatter into flight


    Shakespeare and Dante in a single Night!

    10.

    Sudden, sublime, the strong storm spake:


    we heard the thunders as hounds that bark.

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