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PoeticDevices / Answer
What is alliteration? /
  • Repetition of the ______sound in a series of words
  • Example: tongue twisters like ______

What is imagery? /
  • Words that appeal to your 5 ______(hearing, smelling, feeling, seeing, tasting) and that create a ______in your head
  • Example: The ______, ______Cinnabon pastry melted slowly in my mouth.

What is rhythm? /
  • The ______or ______quality of lines of poetry
One, two, One, two,
Buckle my belt; Buckle my shoe;
Three, four, Three, four,
Snap the lock. Shut the door.
(rhythm without (rhythm with
rhyme) rhyme)
What is rhyme? /
  • Repetition of ______sounds (vowel and consonant)
  • Usually creates ______

What is end rhyme? /
  • Lines of poetry that ______at the ______
The old hat
Fell on the mat
What is internal rhyme? /
  • Words rhyme______the lines of poetry
The cat attacked the rat
And the boy was the decoy
What is rhyme scheme? /
  • A ______of rhyming in a poem
  • Identify rhymes scheme by ______
The cat ran (___)
The dog barked (___)
They went by a man (___)
Their chains sparked (___)
It was crazy! (___)
Repetition /
  • Repeating ______, ______, or ______
  • ______is the repetition of an entire line or stanza more than once
  • The author’s purpose is usually to ______or create rhythm

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Read the following poems. Highlight examples of each of the terms from your notes. Beside the highlighted text, write the name of the term you are identifying.

DANCING DOLPHINS
By Paul McCann
Those tidal thoroughbreds

that tango through the turquoise tide.

Their taut tails thrashing

they twist in tribute to the Titans.
They twirl through the trek
tumbling towards the tide.

I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

By Emily Dickenson

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary to be somebody!

How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

By William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

THE BELLS

By Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the sledges with the bells --
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time
In a sort of Runic rhyme
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells --
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells

Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll

BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!