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A poetic devices exercise booklet: 14 page Word document in 12 technique-based sections.

Students are tasked to provide definitions, examples and descriptions of effects of various poetic techniques (including alliteration, allegory, allusion, ambiguity, analepsis, anti-climax, antithesis, caesura, hyperbole, irony, puns, repetition and symbolism), forms, and meters. They also have to create their own examples of poetry (e.g. acrostic and diamante poems) using these techniques and to justify an identification of theme. Research tasks are also included. Students are asked to match up extracts from well-known poems with the techniques used. In the symbolism section, students can create their own version of a dictionary based on the list of common symbols provided.

When attempting to answer the questions in this booklet, it may be useful to have copies of the following texts to hand:

A Bee, by Matsu Basho
After the Sea-Ship, by Walt Whitman
As I Walked Out One Evening, by W. H. Auden
Beowulf, by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet
Cosmological Constant, by Michael R. Burch
Haddock Fishermen by George MacKay Brown
Havisham, Carol Ann Duffy
Hotel Room, 12th Floor, by Norman MacCaig
Lord Harry’s Front, by Debbie Guzzi
Mrs Midas, Carol Ann Duffy
Originally by Carol Ann Duffy
The Aenid, by Virgil
The Cheviot, The Stag, and the Black, Black Oil, by John McGrath
The Hind and the Panther” by John Dryden
The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Caroll
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
There’s a Certain Slant of Light, by Emily Dickinson
Tulips by Sylvia Plath
Two Roses, Eugene Binx
Walking Wounded, by Vernon Scannell
War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy

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