V5+ Literary Devices poetry

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V5+ Literary Devices poetry

Create your own
4-line poem about the New Year/2025

Metaphor

1. Love is like a rose
2. Love is boring
3. Love is a rose
4. Love touches the soul

What is a stanza?

1. A group of lines in poetry that belongs together
2. Rhythm as a result of repetition
3. A groups of words that belongs together
4. A perfect rhyme scheme

Which literary device is used here:
"Your concience acts like a compass to guide you through life."

Imagery=
Words and phrases that appeal to the senses – sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste. Imagery helps paint pictures in readers’ minds.

Give titles of poems that heavily use imagery (you may use your booklet)

Give an example of personification
(You may use your poetry booklet)

Assonance

1. The repetition of the same consonant
2. The repetition of the same vowel
3. The repetition of the same vowel in initial position
4. The repetition of the same words

Alliteration

1. The repetition of the same consonant
2. The repetition of the same letter
3. The repetition of the same consonant sound
4. The repetition of the same, stressed consonant sound in initial position

Hyperbole =

Which one is NOT onomatopoeia?

1. The bees were buzzing.
2. Splish, splash I was taking a bath.
3. The branch snapped from the tree.
4. The door fell open.

Give your own example of onomatopoeia

Which ones are oxymorons?

1. Deafening silence
2. Silent scream
3. Zero tolerance
4. Unbiased opinion

What is the difference between a paradox and an oxymoron?

Give examples of euphony
(you may use your poetry booklet)

What is the opposite of euphony?
Give examples

What is the difference between rhyme and rhythm?

Name 5 characteristics of
Romantic period poetry

Rhythm = pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse, which can create a musical or metrical effect. 

Rhyme = the repetition of sounds at the end of words, which can create a pleasing or memorable effect