The Voice of the Glacier and other poems - Learning Media

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The Voice of the Glacier and other poems Select three poems from the collection and identify the poetic devices they contain. List your examples in the boxes below. (One poem has already been done for you.)

Shifting Weight alliteration

slow step

onomatopoeia growl

rhyming pairs

personification earth = tries to shake us off

repetition

metaphor

earth = elephant

consonance

back/rocked

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Analyzing the features of poetry

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