FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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Instructor: James Maxfield

Exercise # 4

Identifying elements of description and rhetorical figures in Poetry:

(You can work with a partner or in a small group, but turn in your typed exercise on you own.)

Instructions: After reading carefully any three poems from our text or the video lectures, find and identify by stanza and line number as well as by typing them out examples for the following poetic terms or rhetorical figures:

  1. Find at least 5 metaphorical expressions or similes in each piece.

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  2. Identify any uses of analogy in each piece.

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  3. Identify any uses of vertical, horizontal, depth, or circular arrangement in each piece.

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  4. In each piece, identify at least 5 memorable passages or lines that are loaded with sensory detail.

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  5. How is each piece organized: chronological, linear, spatial, or emphatic? How can you tell?

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  6. If possible, identify one use in each piece of both subjective and objective description.

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  7. Identify any uses of the following or any other terms discussed in our poetry lectures

 

Metonymy Allusion Hyperbole
Alliteration
Consonance
Rhetorical forms of Inversion Isocolon anaphora
Personification Other figures: Other figures:
Other figures: Other figures: Other figures:

 

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