Velammal Bodhi campus
Grade 10 POETIC DEVICES
FIRST FLIGHT
A Letter to God
Personification:
The house sat on the crest of the hill
The field promised a good harvest
Metaphor:
New coins
The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives
A curtain of rain
New silver coins.
Frozen pearls
Lencho was an ox of a man
Simile:
The field was white, as if covered with salt.
This seems like a total loss
Working like an animal in the fields
A plague of locusts would have left more than this.
Poem1. Dust of Snow
I stanza – Inversion & Enjambment
2nd stanza – Enjambment
Shook down on me – Assonance
Crow, hemlock tree – Symbolism
Has given my heart – Synecdoche
Dust of snow - Metaphor
Fire and Ice
Fire and ice – Antithesis
I hold with those who favour fire – Assonance
Some say – Anaphora
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
South African soil – Synecdoche
Watching world – Transferred Epithet
Newborn liberty – Personification
Never, never, and never again – Repetition
, Roar – Onomatopoeia
A chevron of Impala … South African flag – Imagery
Chains – Symbolism
Antithesis:
It requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character.
Courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Man‘s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
That transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding
attorney to become a criminal that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a
home that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.
Simile:
In a country like South Africa
Who looked like I did.
Live like a monk
A Tiger in the Zoo
Tiger, he – Personification
Pads of velvet – Metaphor
Imagery:
Sliding through the grass… deer pass
He should be snarling …. Terrorising the village
Enjambment:
He stalks .... of his cage
Sliding through …. deer pass
He should be snarling ... jungle‘s edge,
And stares ... brilliant stars.
Assonance:
His vivid stripes
His brilliant eyes
Consonance:
Stalks his stripes
His white fangs, his claws
Quiet – Repetition
Quiet rage – Oxymoron
Brilliant – Repetition
Snarling – Onomatopoeia
Grade 10 POETIC DEVICES
FIRST FLIGHT
A Letter to God
Personification:
The house sat on the crest of the hill
The field promised a good harvest
Metaphor:
New coins
The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives
A curtain of rain
New silver coins.
Frozen pearls
Lencho was an ox of a man
Simile:
The field was white, as if covered with salt.
This seems like a total loss
Working like an animal in the fields
A plague of locusts would have left more than this.
Poem1. Dust of Snow
I stanza – Inversion & Enjambment
2nd stanza – Enjambment
Shook down on me – Assonance
Crow, hemlock tree – Symbolism
Has given my heart – Synecdoche
Dust of snow - Metaphor
Fire and Ice
Fire and ice – Antithesis
I hold with those who favour fire – Assonance
Some say – Anaphora
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
South African soil – Synecdoche
Watching world – Transferred Epithet
Newborn liberty – Personification
Never, never, and never again – Repetition
, Roar – Onomatopoeia
A chevron of Impala … South African flag – Imagery
Chains – Symbolism
Antithesis:
It requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character.
Courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Man‘s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
That transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding
attorney to become a criminal that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a
home that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.
Simile:
In a country like South Africa
Who looked like I did.
Live like a monk
A Tiger in the Zoo
Tiger, he – Personification
Pads of velvet – Metaphor
Imagery:
Sliding through the grass… deer pass
He should be snarling …. Terrorising the village
Enjambment:
He stalks .... of his cage
Sliding through …. deer pass
He should be snarling ... jungle‘s edge,
And stares ... brilliant stars.
Assonance:
His vivid stripes
His brilliant eyes
Consonance:
Stalks his stripes
His white fangs, his claws
Quiet – Repetition
Quiet rage – Oxymoron
Brilliant – Repetition
Snarling – Onomatopoeia
