Poetic Elements

Which of the following is NOT an example of an allusion?

• She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden.
• His wife was his Achilles' heel.
• He lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's.
• We'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever.

Hyperbole is...

• an over the top exaggeration
• repetition of consonants
• iambic pentameter
• when two things are contrasting

A simile...

• deliberate use of false or misleading statements
• something that contradicts itself
• compares two or more objects using 'like' or 'as'
• is fixed form

When the end of two lines of poetry rhyme

• End rhyme
• Rhyme
• Slant rhyme
• Rhyme scheme

Repetition of sounds in poetry; usually at the end of words

• Rhyme
• Meter
• Poetry
• Line

What is ALLUSION?

• When words at the END of lines of poetry rhyme with each other.
• A reference to someone or something that is widely known from pop culture, the Bible, history, or other famous works.
• The theme of a particular work of poetry.
• The repetition of letters in lines of poetry.

Which is a metaphor?

• Your love is better than chocolate.
• O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
• No man is an island.
• It's over 9000!

Which is personification?

• My sister eats like a horse.
• The old house stared with blind eyes.
• Laugh and we will laugh with you.
• She washed with birdlike movements.

Which is NOT onomatopoiea?

• breeze
• whisper
• answer
• crash

Alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
• I’m a sheet slitter.
  I slit sheets.
  I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
  that ever slit sheets.