Poetry Lesson Annabel Lee TV4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Poetry 

Stylistic devices

Group Work

Each student is responsible for explaining the meaning of one stylistic device to the other group members.

Task

Look up the definition of the stylistic device.

Come up with an example.

Stylistic devices:

alliteration

metaphor

simile

repetition

personification

assonance

1. Life is like a box of chocolates.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personificaton

2. The fire swallowed the entire forest.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personification

3. Love is a battlefield.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personification

4. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. personification

5. “But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word…” Edgar Allan Poe

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. personification

6. ”My love is like a red, red rose” Robert Burns

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

7. ”…Juliet is the sun!” William Shakespeare

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

8. “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills…” William Wordsworth

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

9. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping...” Edgar Allan Poe

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. alliteration

Annabel Lee

1. What is one of the main themes of this poem?

1. the grief of losing a loved one
2. the revenge of a loved one
3. eternal power of love
4. the importance of family

2. What is the tone? "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea"

1. optimistic
2. light
3. melancholic
4. critical

3. "Nor the demons down under the sea..."

1. alliteration
2. simile
3. personification

4. "... can ever dissever..."

1. alliteration
2. assonance
3. simile

5. "... my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee"

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. repetition
4. metaphor

6. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. personification
2. simile
3. metaphor

7. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. metaphor
2. assonance
3. simile

8. Of my darling - my darling - my wife and my bride

1. assonance
2. repetition
3. simile
4. alliteration

9. "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by her side"

1. assonance
2. metaphor
3. alliteration
4. simile

10. "In her tomb by the sounding sea."

1. simile
2. assonance
3. alliteration