Poetic Elements Part 2

Multiple Choice

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked" is an example of what sound device?

• assonance

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

a word that makes a sound (example: bang, click)

• imagery

• denotation

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Which profession most commonly uses onomatopoeia?

• Musicians

• Actors

• Advertisement Creators

• Comic Strip Writers

Multiple Choice

comparing 2 unlike things using "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

Multiple Choice

comparing two unlike things saying that one thing is the other (do not use "like" or "as")

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• stanza

Multiple Choice

Read the following poem. Pay attention to the lines in red. 
Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

What type of figurative language is in the red lines?

• personification 

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

According to the video, what 2 things are being compared?

• Ogres and Crying

• Onions and Crying

• Ogres and Onions

• Ogres and Odor

Multiple Choice

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

Multiple Choice

I was so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• not hyperbole

Multiple Choice

I had a ton of chores!

• Not hyperbole

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

Multiple Choice

The piano sang a mournful song. 

• Personification 

• NOT Personification 

Multiple Choice

The heavy hail dented cars and cracked windows.

• Personification 

• NOT Personification 

Multiple Choice

Personification is not a type of figurative language

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a personification?

• Traffic slowed to a crawl.

• My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

• Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Miss Lewis has a sweet dog named Waffles.

Multiple Choice

My flowers were begging me to water them.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Time flies when you are having fun!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

It's was so cold outside today, Polar bears needed jackets.

• Hyperbole

• Personification