TASK: Identify the end-stopped line and
then state what effect it creates.
1
The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies full
Upon the the straights
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
TASK: Identify the sound device used in
in the above poem and state its effect.
2
He clasps the crag with crooked hands,
Close to the sun in lonely lands.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Eagle”
TASK: Identify the sound devices used in the above poem and state their effect.
3
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match
Robert Browning, “Meeting at Night”
TASK: Identify the sound devices used in the above poem and state their effect.
4
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of
each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors
never felt before
TASK: Identify the use of assonance in
the above poem and state its effect.
5
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time.
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
TASK: Identify one example of assonance
in the above poem and state its effect.
6
A hand that can be clasped no more –
Behold me, for I cannot sleep.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Memoriam”
TASK: Identify the use of alliteration in
the above poem and state its effect.
7
It launched forth filament, filament,
filament, out of itself.
Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless, Patient Spider”
TASK: Identify the sound device used
in the above poem and state its effect.
8
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds
by the shore.
TASK: Identify the onomatopoeia in the
poem and explain its effect.
9
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom ofthe tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
D.H. Lawrence, “The Piano”
TASK: Identify the onomatopoeia in
the poem and explain its effect.
10
It SHUSHESIt hushes
The loudness in the road.
It flitter-twitters, And laughs away from me. It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirls away, To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts, So beautiful it hurts.
Gwendolyn Brooks, “Cynthia in the Snow”
TASK: Identify the type of rhyme
used in this stanza and state its effect.
11
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning
Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning”
TASK: Identify the internal rhyme
found in this stanza and state its effect.
12
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking
their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
TASK: Identify the use of internal
rhyme in the stanza and state its effect.
13
For the moon never beams without bringing medreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
TASK: Identify the use of internal
rhyme in the stanza and state its effect.
14
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud”
TASK: Identify where the caesura
occurs in this stanza and state its effect.
15
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth andheight
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43”
TASK: Identify where the caesura
occurs in this stanza and state its effect
16
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!
TASK: Identify the enjambment in the
soliloquy and explain its effect.
17
To be, or not to be- that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
Shakespeare, Hamlet
TASK: Identify the enjambment in
the stanza and explain its effect.
18
When I see birches bend to left and rightAcross the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay
Robert Frost, “Birches”
TASK: Identify the similes used in this
poem and state their effect.
19
An emerald is as green as grassA ruby red as blood
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven A flint lies in the mud
A diamond is a brilliant stone To catch the worlds desire An opal holds a fiery spark But a flint holds fire
Christina Rossetti, “An Emerald is as Green as Grass”
TASK: Identify the simile in the poem
and state its effect.
20
What did we say to each other that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file with heads high
with ears forward with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground in whose limbs there is latent flig
ht
TASK: Explain how both the end-stopped and enjambed lines work in
this stanza. How do they add meaning?
21
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
TASK: Identify two different elements of figurative language in the above
stanza, explaining their effects.
22
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free
.Langston Hughes, “Let America be America Again”
TASK: Identify the similes and explain
their effect.
23
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his
purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes
like the measle-pox when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”
TASK: Identify two different elements of figurative language and explain
their effects.
24
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
TASK: Identify the metaphor in the poem’s opening lines and explain
its effect.
25
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).
Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”
TASK: Identify the metaphor in the
stanza and explain its effect.
26
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words— And never stops– at
all--Emily Dickinson, “Hope is a Thing With Feathers”
TASK: Identify the metaphor used in
this stanza and state its effect.
27
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”
TASK: Identify the metaphor in the
stanza and state its effect.
28
It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.
TASK: Identify the slant rhyme used
in this stanza and its effect.
29
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
TASK: Identify two examples of personification in the above stanza,
explaining their effects.
30
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
TASK: In lines 1-2, is the rhyme
masculine or feminine? Explain.
31
Willows whiten, aspens shiver.
The sunbeam showers break and quiver
In the stream that runneth ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”
TASK: In lines 1-2, is the rhyme
masculine or feminine? Explain
32
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
