The planners figure of speech

Following poetic devices/literary devices have been used in the poem The Planners:

Alliteration: When two or more words close together in a line begin with the same consonant. For example, “permutations of possibilities”, “skies surrender”, “dental dexterity”, “gleaming gold”, “Anaesthesia, amnesia”.

Assonance: When two or more words close together in a line have similar-sounding vowels. For Example, “linked by bridges”, “build and will”, “knock of useless blocks with dental dexterity”.

Caesura: When a line is paused halfway roughly, by punctuation. For Example, “so history is new again. The piling will not stop.”

Enjambment: When a line continues into the next without a pause, maintaining sense, as in the whole of the last stanza.

Metaphor: When the rows of new buildings are called shining teeth, this is a metaphorical use, exchanging one for the other which helps deepen meaning and adds fresh imagery.

Repetition: The use of “They plan….They build” and so on reinforces the idea that the planners are anonymous, yet powerful.

the planners quiz

The poem begins with which poetic device?

Personification

Repetition

Metaphor

Simile

'Permutations of possibilities' is an example of which poetic device?

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

Rhyme

True or false: the poem is written in free verse.

True

False

I have no idea (I'll ask Mr Cole later)!

'They build and will not stop' evokes what feeling?

Happiness at so many new building being built.

Sadness that we do not know who they are.

Shock at the amount of new buildings being built.

Threat at the relentless approach from these unknown planners.

'Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender' means...

The war with the nature has been lost.

Buildings are dominating the skyline and even encroaching upon the oceans.

The buildings are being constructed on revolutionary new reinforced clouds.

It is a nice sunny day - let's go to the beach!

6. Multiple Choice

How many stanzas are in the poem?

One

Two

Three

Er, what's a stanza again, Mr Cole?

The second stanza contains an extended metaphor likening what to what?

The planners to dentists.

The buildings to dentists.

The open spaces to grids.

Mr Cole to a derelict Dubai skyscraper.

'Dental dexterity' and 'gleaming gold' are examples of what poetic device?

Personification

Consonance

Assonance

Alliteration

'Anaesthesia, amnesia, hypnosis.' This is the sarcastic description of the public being...?

Put to sleep, made to eat too much, tortured.

Metaphorically sedated, erased of memory, brainwashed into believing that the new buildings are a positive thing.

Punched, kicked, slapped around.

Told off, forgotten about, exiled.

'...the blueprint

of our past's tomorrow.'

What does the word 'blueprint' refer to?

An architectural term for a plan of a building.

A book that is made from the wood of the infamous bluetree.

Something the Yeti left in the sand when it was cold.

Mr Cole's splendid new blue sunglasses.

the shepherd

A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.

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One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.

His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf! Wolf!"

As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.

A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.

Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.

In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Wolf!" But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.

The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.

Liars are not believed even when they

farther and his Sons

A certain Father had a family of Sons, who were forever quarreling among themselves. No words he could say did the least good, so he cast about in his mind for some very striking example that should make them see that their quarrel would lead them to misfortune.

One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks. Then handing the bundle to each of his Sons in turn he told them to try to break it. But although each one tried his best, none was able to do so.

The Father then untied the bundle and gave the sticks to his Sons to break one by one. This they did very easily.

"My Sons," said the Father, "do you not see how certain it is that if you agree with each other and help each other, it will be impossible for your enemies to injure you? But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle."

In unity is strength.