Name: _____________
Date: _______
Block: _____
2.1 Classwork: Poetry Vocab Activity
For today’s classwork, you will read through the poetry selections below
to identify a set of poetic devices. As you identify each device, highlight it
with a colored highlighter. When you do, cross out the corresponding
device from the word bank until you have found an example of each.
Assonance
Symbol
Consonance
Metaphor
Alliteration
Imagery
Simile
Poetry Selections:
1) Robert Frost - from “After Apple-Picking”:
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
2) Langston Hughes - from “Catch”:
Big Boy came
Carrying a mermaid
On his shoulders
And the mermaid
Had her tail
Curved
Rhyme
Beneath his arm.
3) Emily Dickinson - from “after great pain, a formal feeling
comes-”
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?
4) Toni Morrison - from “Eve Remembering”
I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green.
My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple
Fire red and humming.
I bit sweet power to the core.
How can I say what it was like?
The taste! The taste undid my eyes
And led me far from the gardens planted for a child
To wildernesses deeper than any master’s call.
5) Tupac Shakur - from “The Tears in Cupid’s Eyes”
The day you chose to leave me
U rained constantly
Outside
In truth I swore the rain 2 be
The tears in Cupid’s eyes.