Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech poem The Inchcape Rock 12th English
2.3 The Inchcape Rock
Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech:
No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’
2. Repetition – no stir in the sea- this word has been repeated.
The ship was as still as she could be,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’
2. Personification- The sip has been personified with the use of the feminine pronoun ‘she’.
3.Simile
Her sails from heaven received no motions,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
Without either sign or sound of their shock
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’
So little they rose, so little they fell,
Answer: 1. Antithesis- use of opposite words ‘rose’ and ‘fell’.
On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
And over the waves its warning rung.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘w’
When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’ and ‘w’.
And then they knew the perilous Rock,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘th’
The Sun in heaven was shining gay,
Answer: 1. Transferred Epithet- the epithet ‘gay’ has been transferred from ‘people’ to the ‘sun’. The sun is not happy; it is the people who are happy because of the sunlight day.
All things were joyful on that day;
Answer: 1. Personification- The animate quality of being ‘joyful’ has been given to inanimate objects.
The sea-birds scream’d as they wheel’d round,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’.
2. Consonance- ‘d’ has been repeated in the line.
A darker speck on the ocean green;
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
It made him whistle, it made him sing;
Answer: 1.Onomatopeia- use of the musical word ‘whistle’.
2.Repetition- it made him- repeated
His heart was mirthful to excess,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘h’.
2. Synecdoche- Sir Ralph who was ‘mirthful’
Quoth he, “My men, put out the boat,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘m’.
And to the Inchcape Rock they go;
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
Sir Ralph bent over from the boat,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘m’.
Down sunk the bell with a gurgling sound.
Answer: 1.Onomatopeia- use of the musical word ‘gurgling’.
The bubbles rose and burst around;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘b’.
He scour’d the seas for many a day;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’.
He steers his course for Scotland’s shore.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘b’.
So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
They cannot see the Sun on high;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’.
At evening it hath died away.
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
On the deck the Rover takes his stand,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
So dark it is they see no land.
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
Quoth Sir Ralph, ‘It will be lighter soon,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
For there is the dawn of the rising Moon.’
Answer: 1. Metaphor- the rising of the moon has been compared to ‘dawn.
‘Canst hear’, said one, ‘the breakers roar?
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
For methinks we should be near the shore’.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘sh’.
‘Now where we are I cannot tell,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘w’.
2 . Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell’.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘w’.
They hear no sound, the swell is strong;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’.
Though the wind hath fallen they drift along,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘th’.
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,-
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘sh’.
‘O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!’
Answer: 1. Apostrophe
One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.