POETIC DEVICES -TYPE YOUR ANSWER PATTERN

📘 SSLC Poetry Appreciation – Type Your Answer

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1) The Ant and the Cricket

A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring, Began to complain when he found that, at home, His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the first line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the second line:

2) The Secret of Machines

We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive, We can print and plough and weave and heat and light, We can run and race and swim and fly and dive, We can see and hear and count and read and write!

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the first line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the second line:

3) The House on Elm Street

Beside the house sits a tree It never grows leaves Not in the winter, spring, summer or fall. It just sits there, never getting small or ever growing tall, How could this be?

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the first line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the third line:

4) Life (Set A)

In the dim past nor holding back in fear From what the future veils; but with a whole And happy heart, that pays its toll To youth and age, and travels on with cheer.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the first line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the third line:

5) Life (Set B)

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the second line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the first line:

6) The Grumble Family (Set A)

There's a family nobody likes to meet; They live, it is said, on Complaining Street In the city of Never-Are-Satisfied, The River of Discontent beside.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the second line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the second line:

7) The Grumble Family (Set B)

The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining street.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the fourth line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating word in the second line:

8) I Am Every Woman

She's a lioness; don't mess with her. She'll not spare you if you're a prankster. Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect. She know how to thaw you, saw you - so beware!

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the first line:

iv) Pick out the alliterating words in the third line: