Module 1
Gabi, Girl in Pieces Anticipation Guide
Directions: Read the following questions and write down your responses in complete sentences.
1. You should always tell a trusted adult about problems you are having. Explain.
2. People of mixed race should choose to identify with one or the other. Why/why not?
3. Using profanity (f-bombs, etc.) is perfectly acceptable. Why/why not?
4. You must never tell a friend’s secret. Why/why not?
5. Teenagers are more accepting of alternative lifestyles than adults/parents. Why/why not?
6. It is acceptable to be jealous of someone. Explain.
7. “Girls are never free”. Disagree/agree? Explain.
8. Teenage sex is acceptable in today’s culture. Why or why not?
9. It is more difficult for minority students to succeed in college. Explain.
10. You should continue to try to establish a relationship with your parent(s) even if they are on drugs or you never see them. Why/why not
Module #1. Found on: http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/poetic-devices/poetic-devices-worksheets/
Poetic Devices Worksheet 2
Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Identify two or more poetic
techniques being used in each example and write them on the line. There may be more than two
techniques being used. In the boxes below, explain each of your answers.
Answers: Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, Rhythm
1. Amid this hot green glowing gloom
A word falls with a raindrop's boom....
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
2. The little clattering stones along the street
Dance with each other around my swimming feet;
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
3. Click-clack, click-clack, the hour is chill,
The dead coach climbs the distant hill.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
4. Pounded on the table, / Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able, / Boom, boom, BOOM,
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
5. O'er leagues of land and water a weary way you'll go
Before you'll find the country where the blue roses grow.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
6. On the sidewalk boys are playing marbles. Glass marbles, with amber
and blue hearts, roll together and part with a sweet clashing noise.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
7. A strange wind rattled the window-pane, and down the lane a dog howled on,
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
8. Two brown ponies trotting slowly
Stopped at the dim-lit trough to drink.
The dark van drummed down the distance slowly,
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
9. All his thoughts as a river flowed,
Flowed aflame as fleet he rode,
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
10. The beating hearts of the stars aloof
Kept time to the beat of the horse's hoof.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
11. Fast, and fast, by the road he knew;
And slow, and slow, the stars withdrew;
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
12. Out of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
13. Bees that from the meadows bring
Honey on a golden wing
To the garden grot.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
14. Springtide of Love! The secret sweet
Is ours alone;
O heart of Love, at last you beat
Against my own!
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
15. Through the black night
Love's little lantern, like a glowworm's bright,
May lead our steps to some stupendous dawn.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
16. My heart it was a white, white rose
That bloomed upon a broken bough,
He did but wear it for an hour,
And it is withered now.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
17. Only a dog's long lonely howl
When from the window poured pale light.
And from the wood
The hoot came ghostly of the owl.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
18. Sun shine, moon shine,
Stars, and winds a-blowing,
All into this heart of mine
Flowing, flowing, flowing!
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
19. The flaming flower of daytime died,
And the night was as a new bride
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
20. Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
21. The rafters creak; an empty cupboard door
Swings open; now a wild plank of the floor
Breaks from its joist, and leaps behind my foot.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
22. Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,
Let it be forgotten forever and ever,
Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
23. Kiss, clink of glasses, laughter heard,
And nightingales quite undeterred.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
24. All round the yard it is cluck, my brown hen,
Cluck, and the rain-wet wings,
Cluck, my marigold bird, and again
Cluck for your yellow darlings.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
25. And under and under,
The wind booms.
It whistles, it thunders,
It growls--it presses the grass
Beneath its great feet.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
26. The skaters skim over the frozen river.
And the grinding click of their skates as they impinge upon the surface,
Is like the brushing together of thin wing-tips of silver.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)? ______
Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
Module 1: Found on https://kweustenfeldclassroom.wikispaces.com/Literary+Devices
Alliteration / the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. i.e. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.Assonance / the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence.
Hyperbole / a figure of speech involving exaggeration. I just ate the biggest pie in the universe.
Metaphor / A comparison in which one thing is said to be another. i.e. The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.
Onomatopoeia / the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. i.e. The burning wood crackled and hissed.
Oxymoron / putting two contradictory words together. i.e. bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, and act naturally
Personification / is giving human qualities to animals or objects. i.e. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads.
Simile / figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. i.e. She floated in like a cloud.
Allusion / This device is a reference to any event or happening in real life or a literary work. For example, 'The battle between the countries was World War II revisited' or 'Oh, don't be such a Romeo!'. Here, World War II and Romeo are allusions.
Satire / It is a mockery, a witty remark or a ridicule related to a person, place, animal or a thing, generally for leisure and is completely wrong or absurd. TV shows like 'Fawlty Towers’ or movies like ‘Anchorman’ examples of satire.
Irony / the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
Sarcasm / is one kind of irony; it is praise which is really an insult; sarcasm generally involves malice, the desire to put someone down, e.g., "This is my brilliant son, who failed out of college."
Tone / the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers. Tone may be playful, formal, intimate, angry, serious, ironic, outraged, baffled, tender, serene, depressed, etc.
Mood / The atmosphere or emotional condition created by within the setting. Mood refers to the general sense or feeling which the reader is supposed to get from the text and is not necessarily referring to the characters' state of mind.
Imagery / The formation of mental images.
Motifs, Themes and Symbols / A motif is a recurring important idea, structure or image; it differs from a theme in that it can be expressed as a single word or fragmented phrase. e.g. comparing a person's stages of life to seasons of the year.
A theme usually must be expressed as a complete sentence. A theme is a main universal idea or message conveyed by the piece. e.g. Little Red Riding Hood's theme may be "Don't talk to strangers".
A symbol is an object, colour, person, character or figure used to represent abstract ideas. A symbol, unlike a motif, must be tangible or visible.
Identifying Figurative Language #1
Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which technique is being used: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes, explain how you figured out your answer. It is possible that more than one technique is being used. If you can, explain each.
1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Which technique is being used?
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
2. There’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year
since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.
Which technique is being used?
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,
Which technique is being used?
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
4. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
Which technique is being used?
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
5. The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
Which technique is being used? ______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
Which technique is being used? ______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
7. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.
Which technique is being used? ______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,
Which technique is being used? ______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?(write a sentence explaining your answer)
9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters, sad and chilly
Which technique is being used? ______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole