Analyze examples of sound devices within context (i.e., rhyme scheme, alliteration, free verse, repetition, internal rhyme, slant rhyme). SPI 0801.8.9

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1. Analyzing Poetry Tips - The elements of analyzing poetry listed at this site will help you identify the meaning through its parts and give a sense of interpreting a poem.
2. Distinctive Devices: Discover the Secrets behind Poe's Poetry - find evidence of poetic devices in Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Raven" [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Does Slant Rhyme with Can't? - article with examples of Slant Rhyme
4. Figurative Language - definition and examples
5. Half Rhyme - definition and examples
6. Internal Rhyme - definition and examples
7. Literary Terms Quiz - a quiz on 40 useful literary terms
8. Literary Terms Quiz - 26 multiple choice questions in this Quia quiz
9. Literary Terms Quiz - seven multiple-choice questions
10. Poetic Devices - a classroom sign about the forms of poetic devices [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
11. The Raven's Rhymes - mini lesson showing internal rhyme schemes examples using "The Raven"
12. Sound Devices - article with examples and explanations

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