Activity 2.4.1 – Literary Devices in the poem ‘Problem Child’
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Read the poem titled 'Problem Child' by the Canadian poet Elizabeth Brewster. The poem can be found in Unit 2 - Resource Folder.
- Identify the two similes used in the poem. Explain the technical meanings of each simile and what they suggest.
- Identify the metaphor used in the second stanza. What two things/ideas are being linked?
- Identify the touch imagery in the poem and explain its meaning.
- Identify the use of Assonance in the third stanza of the poem. Assonance is the use of vowel sounds in words that follow one another closely.