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 POETRY 

 POETRY . PRACTICE EXERCISES. Instructions. Read, watch or hear the different excerpts of poetry in this activity. Later identify what poetic device is being used in each of the exercises. Try your best and remember… “practice makes perfect”. What poetic device is being used?.

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 POETRY 

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  1. POETRY PRACTICE EXERCISES

  2. Instructions • Read, watch or hear the different excerpts of poetry in this activity. Later identify what poetic device is being used in each of the exercises. Try your best and remember… “practice makes perfect”.

  3. What poetic device is being used? Gaius Valerius Catulluswas a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. “Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,Then another thousand, then a second hundred,Then still another thousand, then a hundred” -Catullus Metaphor Hyperbole Simile Personification

  4. What poetic device is being used in the first and third line? O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. -Robert Burns Metaphor Hyperbole Simile Personification

  5. What poetic device is being used? I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody too?- Emily Dickinson Hyperbole Metaphor Simile Repetition

  6. What poetic device is being used? • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Simile • Personification "The sea had climbed the mountain peaks,And shouted to the starsTo come to play: and down they cameSplashing in happy wars. -Gilbert Keith Chesterson, A Certain Evening

  7. What poetic device is being used in this video? • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Simile • Personification I’m a riddle in nine syllables An elephant a ponderous house A melon strolling on two tendrils -Sylvia Plath

  8. What poetic device is being used? An emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven -Christina Rossetti(1830-1894) Metaphor Hyperbole Simile Personification

  9. What poetic device is being used with most frequency? I almost died of astonishment million years went by Walking to run forever barefooted - E.R. Metaphor Hyperbole Simile Personification

  10. What poetic device is being used? • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Simile • Personification “Julietisthesun” -William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet

  11. What poetic device is being used? I'd love to take a poem to lunch or treat it to a wholesome brunch of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch. -Take a Poem to Lunch,by Denise Rodgers Metaphor Hyperbole Simile Personification

  12. Read the poem completely and identify what poetic device is being used the most. Hyperbole Metaphor Simile Repetition

  13. “Successisdependentoneffort”.-Sophocle

  14. Incorrect

  15. Correct!

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