Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices

Poetic devices are used to make poetry better. It makes

the writing clearer and more descriptive. 

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Internal Rhyme
• None of the above

Alliteration happens when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence. The sound is a consonant and the words don't have to be right next to one another.

Multiple Choice

What is the simile in passage?
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy. 

• on your breath
• But I hung on like death
• Could make a small boy dizzy
• such waltzing was not easy

 A simile  is a type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words like or as.

Multiple Choice

A style of poetry that does not rhyme is called

• quatrain
• exact rhyme
• free verse
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Descriptive language that paints a picture for the reader is called

• personification
• alliteration
• imagery
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
She stood in the front of the alter shaking like a freshly caught trout.

• imagery
• metaphor
• simile
• exact rhyme

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrate below?
A mountain of baby carrots,
a turkey the size of a cow.
a river full of gravy
and gallons full of ice cream.

• quatrain
• hyperbole
• approximate rhyme
• exact rhyme

Hyperbole, from a Greek word meaning “excess,” is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

Buzz, clang, zip, pow

• onomatopoeia
• synecdoche
• imagery
• free verse

Onomatopoeia is when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
The rock stubbornly refused to move.

• simile
• personification
• onomatopoeia
• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"

• couplet
• rhyme scheme
• simile
• repetition

Multiple Choice

Line two contains two examples of __________.

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Which line in this stanza is enjambed?

• line 1

• line 2

• line 3

• line 4

Multiple Choice

Name the poetic device used below.

A careless match

A scornful eye

Wide-eyed amazement

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Transferred Epithet

A transferred epithet is a figure of speech in which a modifier. It qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. In other words, the modifier or epithet is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence.