Click here for a list of poems by THEME (this will make your poetry assignment extremely easy )
Prominent Poets
1. Robert Frost
2. Maya Angelou
3. Edgar Allen Poe
4. Langhston Hughes
5. Wilfred Owen
6. Dylan Thomas
POETIC DEVICES POWERPOINT
C4 Quiz
Poetic Devices
Which poetic device is being used:
1. The leaves danced in the wind.
2. The storm was a raging bull
3. My love is like a red red rose
4. The sound of water falling drip drip drip]
5. Good Grief
6. Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground
7. He is the last of the luckless laborers
8. Her clothes were as colorful as a rainbow
Answer the following questions:
1. What word describes the feeling of a poem?
2. What do you call the pattern that a poem follows?
3. What is repetition and why do poets use this device?
4. Give an example of a hyperbole.
5. Give an example of an idiom.
