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Poetry Analysis Test Study Guide ELEMENTS OF POETRY Directions: Define the terms and give your own examples in the blank provided. 1. Sound Devices a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 2. Rhyme: a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: pool and rule c. Example: __________________________________________________ 3. Rhythm a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: The cat sat on the mat. 4. Repitition a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby c. Example: __________________________________________________ 5. Onomatopoeia a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: The bees buzzed in the flower bed. c. Example: __________________________________________________ 6. Alliteration a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: lovely, lonely lights c. Example: __________________________________________________ Figurative Language 7. Metaphor a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: The snow was a white blanket over the town. c. Example: __________________________________________________ 8. Personification a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: The ocean crashed angrily during the storm. c. Example: __________________________________________________ 9. Simile a. Definition: _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ b. Example: She is as slow as a turtle. c. Example: __________________________________________________ “Free as a …” by Linda Armstrong First thing Outside my window The wild world sings. I wonder How it would be To fly over My neighborhood, Box houses, Streets like lines On a map, Tops of trees; To pull a worm Breakfast from mud Between glass blades; To build a soft house For my children In the branches Of a cottonwood Or to be Such a child Too big for the nest Taking one wild step Into air. Directions: Do the following in the poem. Circle sound devices. (alliteration) Underline figurative language. (personification, simile) Summarize poem