22/03 Literature

1) Discuss in groups the poem “spared”

2) What is your interpretation?
3) Research: Give one example of each poetic device you have
been given
Answers:
2) Our interpretation is that this poem is about a relationship were one of them moves to
another city so they relationship has to end because of the distance.
3)
 Allegory: The Tortoise and the Hare from Aesop's Fables: From this
story, we learn that the strong and steady win the race.
 Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
 Allusion: She felt like she had a golden ticket.
 Apostrophe: It's a nice day outside.
 Assonance: Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox
gone to ground.
 Conceit: John Jefferson’s comparison of separated lovers to the
legs of a compass.
 Consonance: Toss the glass, boss.
 Dissonance: Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear.
 Epigram: I am not young enough to know everything.
 Euphemism: To Pass away.
 Irony: Her brain is the size of a pea.
Metaphor: Laughter is the best medicine.
 Kenning: Swan of blood.
 Metonymy: Crown (for the power of a king).
 Onomatopoeia: Zap.
 Personification: The wind was dancing around.
 Pun: I’ve realized for the first time in my life the importance of
being earnest. Earnest said.
 Synecdoche: Hired hand = workers.
 Simile: she was as sly as a fox.
 Synesthesia: Hearing music and seeing colors in your mind.
 Rhyme: The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.
 Rhythm: Poor tired Tim! Its sad for him. He lags the long
bright morning through.
 Meter: Iambic pentameter.
 Foot: It was many and many a year ago.