Analyzing Poetic Devices in 'Mending Wall'

Analyzing Poetic Devices in 'Mending Wall'

Assessment

Interactive Video

English

9th - 10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Richard Gonzalez

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The video tutorial explores various poetic devices used in Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall'. It covers symbolism, metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, parallelism, hyperbole, pun, paradox, inversion, rhetorical questions, and compound nouns. Each device is explained with examples from the poem, highlighting their role in enhancing the poem's meaning and effect.

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14 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary purpose of poetic devices in a poem?

To confuse the reader

To reduce the poem's complexity

To enhance the poem's effect

To make the poem longer

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In 'Mending Wall', what does the wall symbolize?

A barrier between humans

A symbol of nature

A symbol of friendship

A physical barrier

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which line in 'Mending Wall' is an example of a metaphor?

Like an old stone savage armed

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

Stay where you are until our backs are turned

Good fences make good neighbors

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a simile?

A question without an answer

A direct statement

A contradiction that is true

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which line from 'Mending Wall' is an example of personification?

And to whom I was like to give offence

We have to use a spell to make them balance

My apple trees will never get across

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is alliteration?

Repetition of vowel sounds

A question that doesn't need an answer

Repetition of consonant sounds

A play on words

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which line from 'Mending Wall' is an example of assonance?

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

Where they would have left not one stone on a stone

We have to use a spell to make them balance

Good fences make good neighbors

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