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Poetic Devices Test

The document provides 20 examples of poetic devices from literature and asks the reader to identify the devices in each example. It then provides an answer key that identifies poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance, repetition, hyperbole, apostrophe, oxymoron, antithesis and echo that are present in the examples. The key analyzes and explains the poetic devices used in each excerpt.

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Poetic Devices Test

The document provides 20 examples of poetic devices from literature and asks the reader to identify the devices in each example. It then provides an answer key that identifies poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance, repetition, hyperbole, apostrophe, oxymoron, antithesis and echo that are present in the examples. The key analyzes and explains the poetic devices used in each excerpt.

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Poetic Devices Test

Identify the poetical devices in these examples: (There may be more than one in each)

1. "like a rocket shot to a ship ashore/ the lean red bolt of his body tore" ................

2. "Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" .......................

3. "If anything might rouse him now/ the kind old sun will know" ....................

4. "the road was a ribbon of moonlight, looping the purple moor" ...................

5. "having a glass of blessings standing by." .......................

6. "grass ...... following wind-worried" ......................

7. "they were bright bubbles bursting from the trees" ....................

8. "the murmuring of innumerable bees" .......................

9. "lightening his load of links with pant and puff" .......................

10. "Tonight it doth inherit the vasty Hall of Death" .......................

11. "faint of ghosts of ghosts, the dreams of ghostly eyes" .....................

12. "leaves hung like dumb tongues that loll and gasp for air" .......................

13. "Thou art my life, my love, my heart/ The very eyes of me" ......................

14. "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky" ......................

15. "By his dead smile, I knew we stood in Hell" ......................

16. "the cockatoo ..the wise, harsh bird, as old and wise as Time" .......................

17. "the curious bird, his cynic eyes half closed" ......................

18. "Hail to thee bright spirit/ Bird thou never wert!" .......................

19. "The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones." .......................

20. "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they?" ......................
Answer Key

1. simile/metaphor

2. hyperbole

3. personification

4. ribbon = metaphor

5. glass of blessings = metaphor

6. wind-worried = alliteration

7. bright bubbles bursting = alliteration

8. murmuring of innumerable =assonance

9. "load of links" = metaphor "with pant and puff" = alliteration

10. "Tonight it doth inherit the vasty Hall of Death = onomatopoeia

11. ghosts of ghosts, ghostly = repetition for effect

12. "like dumb tongues" = simile "that loll and gasp for air" = personification

13. "Thou art my life" = apostrophe The very eyes of me = metaphor

14. "Ring out, wild bells" = apostrophe

15. dead smile = oxymoron, we stood in Hell = slight hyperbole

16. bird, as old and wise as Time = similes, falling cadence

17. "the curious bird, his cynic eyes half closed" transferred epithet = cynic

18. "Hail to thee bright spirit!" = apostrophe

19. "The evil that men do lives after them/ The good is oft interred with their bones." = couplet,
antithesis

20. "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they?" = echo

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