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Poetic Devices
Worksheet 2
Directions: Read the lines of
poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Identify two or more poetic
techniques being used in each example and write them on the line.
There may be more than two techniques being used. In the boxes below,
explain each of your answers.
Answers: Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia,
Repetition, Rhyme, Rhythm
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1. Amid this hot green glowing gloom
A word falls with a raindrop's
boom....
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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2. The little clattering stones along
the street
Dance with each other around my
swimming feet;
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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3. Click-clack, click-clack, the hour
is chill,
The dead coach climbs the distant hill.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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4. Pounded on the table, / Beat an
empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able, / Boom, boom,
BOOM,
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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5. O'er leagues of land and water a
weary way you'll go
Before you'll find the country where
the blue roses grow.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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6. On the sidewalk boys are playing
marbles. Glass marbles, with amber
and blue hearts, roll together and part
with a sweet clashing noise.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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7. A strange wind rattled the
window-pane, and down the lane a dog howled on,
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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8. Two brown ponies trotting slowly
Stopped at the dim-lit trough to
drink.
The dark van drummed down the distance
slowly,
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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9. All his thoughts as a river flowed,
Flowed aflame as fleet he rode,
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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10. The beating hearts of the stars
aloof
Kept time to the beat of the horse's
hoof.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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11. Fast, and fast, by the road he
knew;
And slow, and slow, the stars withdrew;
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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12. Out of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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13. Bees that from the meadows bring
Honey on a golden wing
To the garden grot.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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14. Springtide of Love! The secret
sweet
Is ours alone;
O heart of Love, at last you beat
Against my own!
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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15. Through the black night
Love's little lantern, like a
glowworm's bright,
May lead our steps to some stupendous
dawn.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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16. My heart it was a white, white rose
That bloomed upon a broken bough,
He did but wear it for an hour,
And it is withered now.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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17. Only a dog's long lonely howl
When from the window poured pale
light.
And from the wood
The hoot came ghostly of the owl.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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18. Sun shine, moon shine,
Stars, and winds a-blowing,
All into this heart of mine
Flowing, flowing, flowing!
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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19. The flaming flower of daytime died,
And the night was as a new bride
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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20. Only the lull I like, the hum of
your valved voice.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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21. The rafters creak; an empty
cupboard door
Swings open; now a wild plank of the
floor
Breaks from its joist, and leaps
behind my foot.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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22. Forgotten as a fire that once was
singing gold,
Let it be forgotten forever and ever,
Time is a kind friend, he will make us
old.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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23. Kiss, clink of glasses, laughter
heard,
And nightingales quite undeterred.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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24. All round the yard it is cluck, my
brown hen,
Cluck, and the rain-wet wings,
Cluck, my marigold bird, and again
Cluck for your yellow darlings.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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25. And under and under,
The wind booms.
It whistles, it thunders,
It growls--it presses the grass
Beneath its great feet.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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26. The skaters skim over the frozen
river.
And the grinding click of their skates
as they impinge upon the surface,
Is like the brushing together of thin
wing-tips of silver.
Which techniques are being
used (list two or more)?
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Alliteration,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, and/or Rhythm
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How do you figure?
Explain
how you got your answer
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