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Poetry Language Analysis

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📖 Part 1: Poem Analysis

Read the following poem extract:

"The silver moon danced through the midnight sky,
While whispered winds sang lullabies.
Stars sparkled like diamonds bright,
Painting dreams across the night."

1. What type of figurative language is "The silver moon danced"?

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

2. Which line contains a simile?

"The silver moon danced through the midnight sky"

"While whispered winds sang lullabies"

"Stars sparkled like diamonds bright"

"Painting dreams across the night"

3. Identify all examples of alliteration in the poem:

"silver" and "sky"

"whispered winds"

"diamonds" and "dreams"

"midnight" and "moon"

4. The rhyme scheme of this poem is:

ABAB

AABB

ABCB

No rhyme scheme

✏️ Part 2: Language Features Analysis

5. Explain the effect of the personification "whispered winds sang lullabies". How does this language choice impact the mood of the poem?
6. Find and write down one example of imagery from the poem. Explain which sense it appeals to.

Example of imagery: _________________________________

This appeals to the sense of: _________________________

7. The poet uses the metaphor "Painting dreams across the night". What is being compared to what?
8. Choose your own favourite line from the poem and explain why the poet's word choices are effective.

Favourite line: ____________________________________

🎨 Part 3: Creative Application

9. Write your own line of poetry using personification about the sun.
10. Create a simile comparing stars to something other than diamonds.

Stars sparkled like ________________________________

11. Write two words that would create alliteration with "beautiful".

_________________________ and _________________________

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