Poetic Techniques Cover

Multiple Choice

In which poetic device are human qualities and actions attributed to an inanimate object.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Multiple Choice

The repetition of a letter sound at the beginning of two (or more) words.

e.g. Deep into the depths of darkness I descended…

• assonance

• alliteration

• simile

Multiple Choice

'Come and clean the chaos in your closet,' is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

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When an object/colour/image is used to represent an idea.

e.g. A rose might signify love; the colour black might represent death; a dove is an image of peace.

• symbolism

• juxtaposition

• anaphora

Multiple Choice

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

They fought like cats and dogs.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Multiple Choice

' In the dark morning, the man laughed sadly.' This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

Multiple Choice

When you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else.”

e.g. This assignment is a breeze.

His words were daggers in my heart.

• free verse

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

A repetition of hissing sounds in two (or more) words.

e.g. Sing a song of sixpence.

Conspiring cells of summer shells.

• sibilance

• allusion

• rhyme

Multiple Choice

Use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humour is

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.

e.g. Before the sunrise

a chain of red clouds rise

and all else is in the darkness.

• symbolism

• metaphor

• enjambment

Multiple Choice

' In the dark morning, the man laughed sadly.' This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

Multiple Choice

When a comparison is made between two things.

e.g. It was as cold as a snowy winter’s eve.

She ran, like a bullet from a gun, towards the finish line.

• juxtaposition

• rhythm

• simile

Multiple Choice

Boom!

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

A poem that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not have a regular rhyme scheme.

e.g. Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall,

she walks

by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,

dying.

And round about there is a rabble

Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.

They shall inherit the earth.

In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive

and there will be no end for the children of the universe.

• rhyme

• free verse

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!
• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...
• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!
• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

Multiple Choice

When two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound.

e.g. Go and mow the lawn.

The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.

• assonance

• sibilance

• personification

Multiple Choice

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” (Richard Cushing)

• allusion

• understatement

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Using the 5 senses to create an image in the reader’s mind.

e.g. The carpet of bright flowers had a heady aroma. As I walked, I could feel their perfume choking my nostrils. (sight, smell, touch)

• imagery

• rhythm

• symbolism

Multiple Choice

"All's fair in love and war" is an example of which poetic device where two things are placed near each other to bring out their differences?

• juxtaposition

• enjambment

• figurative language

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Making a reference to a person, place, thing, or an idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

e.g. Stop trying to be a Romeo! (Reference to ‘Romeo and Juliet’)

I’ve got the speed and power of a young Mike Tyson. (Reference to good boxing skills)

• juxtaposition

• free verse

• allusion

Multiple Choice

If you are using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas to appeal to your reader's senses, your poetry is full of...

• couplets

• imagery

• a sonnet

• idioms

Multiple Choice

When something non-human (e.g. an object, an animal, a concept) is given human qualities.

e.g. The fire swallowed the entire forest.

Time had crushed me in the palm of his hand.

• imagery

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• personification
• symbolism
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Multiple Choice

A repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.

e.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again!”

• rhyme

• symbolsim

• anaphora

Multiple Choice

Dove = Peace would be an example of...

• personification
• metaphor
• alliteration
• symbolism

Multiple Choice

A word that sounds like the noise it is describing.

e.g. He heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

He was young and full of life while she counted her days.

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Contrast/Compare

• Allusion

Multiple Choice

A regular use of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

e.g. DOU-ble, / DOU-ble / TOIL and / TROU-ble;

FI-re / BURN, and / CAL-dron / BUB-ble.”

• anaphora

• rhythm/meter

• enjambment

Multiple Choice

When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.

• pun

• allusion

• idiom

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Repetition of a word, phrase, or image that has been mentioned previously in a poem.

e.g. The wrong person was selected for the wrong job, at the wrong time, for the wrong purpose

• allusion

• personification

• anaphora

Multiple Choice

When ideas, places, characters, or their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

e.g. The character of Tybalt in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ looks more aggressive by comparison to the peaceful characters in the play.

• symbolism

• free verse

• juxtaposition

Multiple Choice

Juxtaposition is...

• The figurative comparison between two unlike things

• Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast

• A position on the football field

• What readers do when they compare and contrast

Multiple Choice

A brief reference to a famous historical figure or event, like from a movie or a book. 

• Alliteration 
• Hyperbole 
• Assonance 
• Allusion

Multiple Choice

Why would a writer use juxtaposition?

• To surprise the reader

• To create startling contrasts between two objects or ideas

• To control the pacing of a text

• To add a sense of musicality

Multiple Choice

Which Question Is Rhetorical ?

• "Do you want to teach the class today?"

• "Can I come over after school?"

• "Would you like something to drink?"

• "May I use the Restroom?"

Open Ended

Think of a song that you enjoy.

Google the lyrics.

Write out as many techniques you find and label them.

Example: Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero: "I'm the monster on the hill" = metaphor.

Open Ended

Think of a song that you hate.

Google the lyrics.

Write out as many techniques you find and label them.

Example: Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero: "I'm the monster on the hill" = metaphor.