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ALLITERATION Alliteration is often called a “ sound device “ because it has more to do with the sound of words and letters than with actual mental images. Tongue-twisters are good examples of alliteration, which is the repetition of identical beginning sounds (usually consonant sounds) of words in a series. It is important to emphasize that it is the sounds that are repeated, not letters, because different letters, such as a soft “c” and an “s”, can make the same sounds. Examples The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free. The rolling rumble of rocks Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ONOMATOPOEIA This sound device is sometimes called imitative harmony. It is the use of words which actually mimic the sound they recreate: tick-tock for the sound of a clock, ding-dong for a bell. If these words are well-chosen, we can actually hear the sound as we read them aloud. Examples Snow crunching underfoot The scratch of a match Sizzling bacon Hiss of a snake There are literally dozens of literary devices, but for the purposes of this unit, reading and enjoying poetry, the above-mentioned are a good introduction. 24 Exercise VI
A. Look again at the poem “ Winter Uplands “. How many literary devices can you find in the poem Make a list of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia. 25 WINTER UPLANDS The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek, The loneliness of this forsaken ground, The long white shaft upon whose powdered peak I sit in the great silence as one bound; The rippled sheet of snow where the wind blew Across the open fields for miles ahead; The far-off city towered and roofed in blue A tender line upon the western red; The stars that singly, then in flocks appear, Like jets of silver from the violet dome, So wonderful, so many and so near, And then the golden moon to light me home; The crunching snowshoes and the stinging air, And silence, frost and beauty everywhere. Archibald Lampman B. Find literary devices in the following poem. Last Week in October The trees are undressing, and fling in many places -- On the gray road, the roof, the window-sill -- Their radiant robes and ribbons and yellow laces; A leaf each second so is flung at will, Here, there, another and another, still and still. A spider’s web has caught one while downcoming, That stays there dangling when the rest pass on;
Page 1 and 2: ACADEMIC STUDIES ENGLISH Support Ma
Page 3 and 4: IAU-ENG 3.2 READING COMPREHENSION O
Page 5 and 6: NOTE TO FACILITATORS AND LEARNERS:
Page 7 and 8: 1 READING COMPREHENSION: POETRY INT
Page 9 and 10: 3 POETRY Poetry is a special form o
Page 11 and 12: This poem has a rhyme scheme of ABA
Page 13 and 14: 7 c / c / c / 3 “He thought he’
Page 15 and 16: 2. Chart the rhythms with stressed
Page 17 and 18: 11 The Plowman I heard the plowman
Page 19 and 20: 13 Blank verse is a form of poetry
Page 21 and 22: Other traditional folk ballads whic
Page 23 and 24: 17 Exercise IV Answer the questions
Page 25 and 26: 19 Cats doze and linger With patien
Page 27 and 28: 21 Kite I wish I were a kite on hig
Page 29: 23 Examples as blind as a bat as pa
Page 33 and 34: 27 Exercise VII Read the following
Page 35 and 36: 29 White spirits loosed from bonds
Page 37 and 38: 31 Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns The
Page 39 and 40: 33 Exercise II A. He Who Binds to H
Page 41 and 42: C. First quatrain (lines 1 - 4) The
Page 43 and 44: Metaphor: The trees fling “their
Page 45 and 46: 39 POETRY PRE-TEST 1. Mark the rhyt
Page 47 and 48: 41 4 Though few flies wander his se
Page 49 and 50: 43 PRE-TEST: ANSWER KEY ^ / ^ / ^ /
Page 51 and 52: 45 2. a) Metaphor Black swallows sw
Page 53 and 54: 47 d. This is a sonnet. It has 14 l
Page 55 and 56: 49 These books are not merely antho
Page 57 and 58: FEEDBACK PROCESS For feedback, plea

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