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Poetic Devices Activity
Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Identify two or more poetic
Techniques being used in each example and write them on the line. There may be more than two
Techniques being used. In the spaces below, explain each of your answers.
1. A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)?
How do you figure?
Explain how you got your answer
2. Click-clack, click-clack, the hoofs went past,
Who takes the dead coach travels fast,
Which techniques are being used (list two or more)?
How do you figure?