Poetic+devices





Identify the poetical devices in these examples: (There may be more than one in each) 1. "like a rocket shot to a ship ashore/ the lean red bolt of his body tore" ................assonance, simile 2. "Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" .......................metaphor 3. "If anything might rouse him now/ the kind old sun will know" ....................personification 4. "the road was a ribbon of moonlight, looping the purple moor" ...................metaphor 5. "having a glass of blessings standing by." .......................metaphor 6. "grass ...... following wind-worried" ......................personification, alliteration 7. "they were bright bubbles bursting from the trees" ....................alliteration 8. "the murmuring of innumerable bees" .......................personification 9. "lightening his load of links with pant and puff" .......................alliteration, onametapia 10. "Tonight it doth inherit the vasty Hall of Death" .......................metaphor 11. "faint of ghosts of ghosts, the dreams of ghostly eyes" .....................repetition 12. "leaves hung like dumb tongues that loll and gasp for air" .......................simile

13. "Thou art my life, my love, my heart/ The very eyes of me" ......................repetition, metaphor 14. "By his dead smile, I knew we stood in Hell" ......................imagery, metaphor 15. "the cockatoo ..the wise, harsh bird, as old and wise as Time" .......................symbol

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