Poetic Device used in the poem My Mother At Sixty Six
1. Name the type of poetic device used in the poem, “My Mother At Sixty Six” in general. (a) enjambment (or Enjambment & End-Stopped lines) (b) zeugma (c) repetition (d) meter 2. Name the poetic / literary used in these lines:- “ S ixty- S ix” “pu t t hat t hough t ” “ s mile and s mile and / s mile “ m y m other” that s he was a s old a s s he looked but s oon pu t t ha t t hough t away, and looked ou t a t Young T rees sprin t ing, t he merry children spilling ou t of t heir homes (a) assonance (b) alliteration (consonance) (c) calligram (d) pun 3. Identify the poetic device used in these lines:- · …her face ashen like that of a corpse… · that she was as old as she looked … · … I looked again at her, wane, pale as a late winter’s moon (a) metaphor (b)simile (c) assonance (d)repetition 4. Read the following line from the poem “My Mother At 66” and iden