Wednesday, April 25 poetry terms practice

In class: poetry exercise practice. Due at the close of class. Class handout / copy below.

Name_____________________________________ 

Using your vocabulary list as a resource, identify the correct figurative language / rhetorical device. If there is more than one, write them down. These are due at the close of class.

1.      _____________________________ The lion’s mighty roar could be heard across the Savannah.

      2.______________________________ My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

     3. _______________________________ Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.

     4. _______________________________ A narrative poem

     5. _______________________________ All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

                                                                         They have their exits and their entrances.

     6. _____________________________     Amongst the bushes and thorns

                                                                         Beautiful red rose blooms.

     7. ____________________________   Potato chips are my diet's Achilles heel.

     8. ____________________________ a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in

                                                                  which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character

                                                                  while describing a particular situation or series of events.

     9.___________________________  The handshake felt like warm laundry.

   10. ___________________________ how a sentence is organized to achieve certain artistic effects, like mood

                                                                and tone.

    11. __________________________ The sly, slithering snake snuck into the shed.

 

    12. _________________________ I could listen to that song on repeat forever.

    13. _________________________ The fragrance of spring flowers made her joyful.

    14. _________________________William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all.

    15. _________________________ “All the people were moving in the same direction; all the people were

                                                              thinking about the same thing; and all the people were discussing the

                                                              same topic.”

    16. _________________________ how one organizes a poem

    17. _______________________ “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things.

                                                           So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”

    18. ______________________   The selection of the right, accurate and appropriate word to convey your

                                                         message.

Application. Read aloud in your head the following poem by Langston Hughes, so that you can hear it within your head and feel the rhythm of the poem. Respond the questions at the close of the poem.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967

 I’ve known rivers:

I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

     went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy

     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

1.      Who is the speaker? _____________________________________________________

2.      Name four examples of allusion within the poem. ________________________________

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3.      Give an example of a simile from the poem.________________________________________

4.      In three-five well-written sentences, explain the poem’s message as expressed through the metaphor of the river.

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