POETRY
16
POETRY PRACTICE EXERCISES
description
POETRY . PRACTICE EXERCISES. Instructions. Read, watch or hear the different excerpts of poetry in this activity. Later identify what poetic device is being used in each of the exercises. Try your best and remember… “practice makes perfect”. What poetic device is being used?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Transcript of POETRY
POETRY
PRACTICE EXERCISES
Instructions
Read, watch or hear the different excerpts of poetry in this activity. Later identify what poetic device is being used in each of the exercises. Try your best and remember…
“practice makes perfect”.
What poetic device is being used?
“Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,Then another thousand, then a second hundred,Then still another thousand, then a hundred”-Catullus
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.
What poetic device is being used in the first and third line?
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. -Robert Burns
What poetic device is being used?
I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody too?- Emily Dickinson
a) Hyperbole b) Metaphor c) Similed) Repetition
What poetic device is being used?
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
"The sea had climbed the mountain peaks,And shouted to the starsTo come to play: and down they cameSplashing in happy wars.-Gilbert Keith Chesterson, A Certain Evening
What poetic device is being used in this video?
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
I’m a riddle in nine syllablesAn elephant a ponderous houseA melon strolling on two tendrils -Sylvia Plath
What poetic device is being used?An emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven-Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
What poetic device is being used with most frequency?
I almost died of astonishmentmillion years went byWalking to runforever barefooted- E.R.
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
What poetic device is being used?
a) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personificati
on
“Juliet is the sun”-William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet
What poetic device is being used?
I'd love to take a poem to lunchor treat it to a wholesome brunchof fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.-Take a Poem to Lunch, by Denise Rodgersa) Metaphorb) Hyperbolec) Similed) Personification
Read the poem completely and identify what poetic device is being used the most.
a) Hyperbole b) Metaphor c) Similed) Repetition
“Success is dependent on effort”.-Sophocle
Incorrect
Correct!
