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SONNET 29
By: William shakespeare
Author
Type
Subtype
Persona
Addressee
Theme
Figures of Speech
Symbolism
Imagery
Vertical Measures
Horizontal Measures
Rhythm
Rhyme
Paraphrase. State in your ow words the following poems---Basho’s haiko and
Omar Khayyam’s rubai.
Identification. Cite what the three expressions or paired items per number
possess or exhibit in common.
_____________________2. Thorndike ---corn spike, sign pen--- linemen, nightime sight rhyme
_____________________ 5. acrid,bland,savory
_____________________9.frigid, torrid,tepid
_____________________10. kaleidoscope,panorama,tableau
_____________________11. abbabba cdecde, abab bcbc cdcd ee, ababcb cdc ded efe
Figures of Speech. Match the two columns (lines taken from nursery rhymes and
Christmas songs and the figures of speech exhibited by these lines) by placing the
appropriate letters on the blanks before the numbers.
Use all the letters only once.
Column A Column B
___________1. And with his blood mankind hath bought A. alliteration
B. allusion
___________2. Little bit of biscuit on the shelf, uh-- huh C. anaphora
D. anastrophe
___________3. And one for the dame, E. aphaeresis
And one for the little boy G. apostrophe
___________4. Their gold and myrrh and frankincense. H. assonance
I. consonance
___________5. Simple Simon went a fishing. J. epistrophe
K. exclamation
___________6. Everyone’s dancing merrily L. gemination
In a new old -fashioned way. M. hyperbole
___________7. How to look around ‘til she finds things N. inversion
O. metaphor
___________8. There’s a Tree in the Grand Hotel, P. metonymy
one in the park as well, Q. anomatopeia
The sturdy kind that doesn’t R. oxymoron
mind the snow. S. personafication
___________9. Listen to it squeak. T. polysyndeton
U. prothesis
__________10. Then, I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus V. simile
___________11. Goosey goosey gander; W. syncope
whither shall I wander? X. synecdoche
___________12. Merrily, merrily, merrilyn, Y. transfered epithet
merrily Z. zeugma
___________13. Our troubles will be miles away.
LYRIC 17
By: Jose Garcia Villa