English Grade 10 – 5 Poetry Devices Matching from a poem

Match poetic devices to the examples

1. Oxymoron
2. Paradox
3. Simile
4. a diploma described as “his passport from the years of brutal toil”
5. Hyberbole
“empty strength”
“every pencil meant a sacrifice”
“like a young bear inside his teller's cage”
“slaving to free him”
a diploma described as “his passport from the years of brutal toil”