Question

Identify at least three poetic devices from the passage below.

First, include the line number and the poetic device it contains. Be very specific to point out what parts or words in the line you chose illustrate the device and how.

Then explain the effect it has or the purpose it serves for the reader/listeners.



Out from the marsh, from the footy of misty

Hills and bogs, bearing God's hatred

285 Grendel came, hoping to kill

Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot.

He moved quickly through the cloudy night,

Up from his swampland, sliding silently

Toward that gold-shining hall.

Answer 1

I would say imagery for one

Answer 2

Onomatopoiea