Poetry figurative language

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• Leerjaar 4

Figurative speech Let you down

Name 3 literary devices and forms of figurative language you remember from the last LessonUp?

Practice round ; repeat what you have learned.

Choose the literary device:
'Twinkle twinkle little star..'

1. onomatopoeia
2. simili
3. alliteration
4. repetition

The ghostly galleons grab greedily

This is an example of:

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

Which literary device is saying the exact opposite of what you mean?

1. satire
2. hyperbole
3. irony
4. alliteration

We are the corroboree and the bora ground.

This is an example of:

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

Turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now.

1. hyperbole
2. anaphora
3. assonance
4. oxymoron

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire.

1. oxymoron
2. euphemism
3. anaphora
4. personification

I can resist anything but temptation.

1. paradox
2. metonymy
3. synecdoche
4. personification

I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.

1. synecdoche
2. onomatopoeia
3. pun
4. hyperbole

All hands on deck!

1. assonance
2. apostrophe
3. irony
4. synecdoche

synecdoche vs metonymy

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa. 

In a metonymy, the word we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that particular thing, but is not a part of it. 

The crown, Hollywood, 

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it?

1. pun
2. personification
3. anaphora
4. synecdoche

Literary devices

Practice round identifying poetic/literary devices and figurative language.

For tomorrow

Read p. 6 on context in the poetry reader.

Take a look at the timeline on p. 7.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

      Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

      The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.