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Writing about Poetry – the Worksheet:

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  1. TECHNIQUE: “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key uses imagery.

EXAMPLE: “O say can you see, / By the dawn’s early light” (1-2) is visual imagery.

  1. TECHNIQUE: “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key uses connotation.

EXAMPLE: The word “ramparts” in “O’er the ramparts we watched” (7) connotes a feeling of safety and security.

  1. TECHNIQUE: “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key uses personification.

EXAMPLE: “Whose broad stripes and bright stars… were so gallantly streaming” (5 & 8) implies that the flag is itself gallant. But the flag is inanimate, so this is personification

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