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Name the device in each of these practice sentences: (a) the hill held its breath as the ravens came; (b) the raven's croak was as dry as a snapped twig; (c) dark wings drove down the dead white slope.
Look for human behaviour in a non-human thing, for the words like or as, and for repeated first sounds.
What does a symbol do, and what does the raven usually symbolise?
Think of what ravens eat and what stories say about them.
The practice sentence the hill held its breath as the ravens came uses which device?
Ask whether something non-human is behaving like a person.
The practice sentence the raven's croak was as dry as a snapped twig uses which device?
Look for like or as.
Write four original practice sentences about ravens, each using a different device from this list: imagery, simile, personification and alliteration. Label each one and say in a few words what it does.
Write the sentence first, then check it against the definition of the device before labelling it.
A classmate writes: The poet uses alliteration, which makes the poem good. Rewrite this into a full Device, Evidence, Effect statement, using a bracket for evidence from your own copy.
Replace which makes the poem good with a precise effect on meaning, mood or sound.
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