Literary Devices in Poetry

"Helen, thy beauty is to me like those Nicean barks of yore..." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Blackberries Big as the ball of my thumb ... fat With blue-red juices" - Sylvia Plath

"I wandered lonely as a cloud /That floats on high o'er vales and hills..." - Wordsworth

"Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard 'round the world" -Emerson

"I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent."

Identify the literary device: "Fire ran horrified from its ashes..." - "Peligro," Stuart Dybek

"Greece sees unmoved,/ God's daughter, born of love" -"Helen" by H.D.

"...the bull ... (when he rolled on the sand ... the teeth in his .. mouth were human)" -Atwood

"He was a big man, says the size of his shoes..." -Ted Kooser

Identify the literary device: "Hope is the thing with feathers..." -Emily Dickenson

"bread/the girl's hands tear and toss like confetti" - Jamaal May

"Everything’s wrong, Days are too long, Sunshine’s too hot, Wind is too strong." -Silverstein

"Water, water, every where /Nor any drop to drink." -Coleridge

"...and I, an alarm, awake..." -Maya Angelou

"When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,/Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance..." -Keats