Poetic Devices Webquest
You will be completing the following webquest to review the poetic devices we
learned during this unit.
Poetic Devices: Alliteration, Atmosphere, Concrete, Dialect, Imagery, Metaphor
Onomatopoeia, Personification, Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme, Simile
Follow the steps and complete all the tasks. You may use your notes for steps 1-5.
This will be counted as a test grade.
(50 points)
Step 1: Read the lyrics to Katy Perry’s Firework.
Step 2: Fill in the lyrics chart provided for the poetic devices (12 points)
Step 3: Complete the personification worksheet. In each sentence, identify what is
being personified. (10 points)
Step 4: Read the poem, “The sky is low” by Emily Dickinson by clicking on this link.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dickin01.html#12
Step 5: Identify two examples from the poem above of personification: (4 points)
What is being personified? ______________________
Which human trait is given? _____________________
What is being personified? ______________________
Which human trait is given? _____________________
Step 6: Create a one-quatrain poem with a rhyme scheme below. (6 points)
ABBA
Poetry Quiz
Directions: Match the correct word to the correct definition. You may use your notes.
A. alliteration
B. atmosphere
C. concrete
D. dialect
E. onomatopoeia
F. rhyme
G. rhyme scheme
_______1. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
_______2. The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer
_______3. The emotion created in the reader by all or part of a work
_______4. A regular pattern of end rhymes at the ends of lines
_______5. A poem that has been printed in the form of its subject matter
_______6. The repetition of initial consonant sounds
_______7. A version of a language spoken in a particular place, time or social group
Directions: Match the correct word to the proper example.
A. alliteration
B. atmosphere
C. concrete
D. dialect
E. onomatopoeia
F. rhyme
G. rhyme scheme
_______8. It seems like my cat who purrs every single minute of the day.
_______9. Wouldn’t y’all like a big cup o’ tea?
_______10. The breeze brushed against my back.
Directions: On the lines provided, write the rhyme scheme (LETTERS) next to the lines.
11. There once was a beautiful cat _________
Who dressed in a silly French hat ________
One day his hat started to fray ________
That was the cat’s worse ever day _________
Directions: Read the following poem and then answer the questions.
“The Bean Eaters”
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
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They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
2 Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipped ware on a plain and creaking wood,
4 Tin flatware.
5 Two who are Mostly Good.
6 Two who have lived their day,
7 But keep on putting on their clothes
8 And putting things away.
9 And remembering…
10 Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
11 As they lean over the beans in their rented back room
12 that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
13 tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
12. What is the rhyme scheme of the first four lines?
13. What is an example of a sound sensory detail from the poem?
14/15. What is an example of two sight sensory details from the poem? (2points)
16. Line 10 contains an example of what poetic device that we have discussed in class?
17. What was your favorite poem we read? Why? (Write in complete sentences! 2points)