Song 'This is Me' Poetic Devices Worksheet and Key

Poetic Devices Worksheet: Song "This Is Me"

This worksheet of 15 questions is ideal for middle and high school students studying English Language Arts, particularly those focusing on poetry and song analysis. This worksheet is designed to help students identify and understand various poetic devices used in the song “This Is Me” from the movie The Greatest Showman. Through this engaging activity, students will explore how different literary techniques contribute to the song’s meaning and emotional impact.

Worksheet Contents:

• Metaphor: Identifying comparisons between two unlike things.
• Personification: Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.
• Parallelism: Recognizing repetition of grammatical structures.
• Hyperbole: Understanding exaggerated statements.
• Colloquialism: Spotting informal expressions.
• Symbolism: Interpreting symbols that signify deeper meanings.
• Oxymoron: Finding contradictory terms used together.
• Repetition: Noting repeated words or phrases for emphasis.
• Anaphora: Observing deliberate repetition at the beginning of sentences.
• Assonance: Detecting repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
• Alliteration: Identifying repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• Irony: Recognizing situations where the truth is opposite to what it seems.
• Idiom: Understanding figurative expressions with cultural meanings.
• Juxtaposition: Analyzing side-by-side placement of contrasting elements.
• Consonance: Finding recurrence of consonant sounds in close proximity.

P.S:
Each question is followed by a brief definition and examples of the device to aid understanding.