Question

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 boxes below, explain each of your answers. Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme, Rhythm 1. Radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers; And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours, Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon; Which techniques are being used (list two or more)?

Answer 1

Answer:

Alliteration, Repetition, Rhyme.

Explanation:

The given lines of poetry are taken from Rupert Brooke's poem "The Great Lover".

Alliteration- This is a technique when the same first letter of a given word is used again in the next word or close quarters. So, the alliteration in the given lines of poetry is "radiant raindrops/ couching.. cool/ sway.. sunny" etc. While radiant and raindrops start with "R", couching and cool starts with "C" and sway and sunny starts with "S". This is a pattern of alliteration.

Repetition is the use of the same word/ words in a consecutive pattern or a short space of the poem. This is used at times to emphasize the word. The repeated word in the given lines of poetry is "flowers"

Rhyme is the similarity in the sounds in the lines. This correspondence of such similar-sounding end words especially in lines of poetry is identified as the rhyme scheme. The rhyme in the given lines of poetry is in the words "flowers" and "hours" that have the same end-sound.