using text to portray the five senses

using text to persuade the audience

using text to foreshadow the future

using text to ask inquiry questions on a topic

Your love is better than chocolate.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Which is personification?

The old house stared with blind eyes.

Laugh and we will laugh with you.

She washed with birdlike movements.

Every adult can vote. You must have a driver's license to vote.

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

I’m a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I’m the sleekest sheet slitter that ever slit sheets.

It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.

Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!

Which does NOT happen with enjambment?

Sentence starts in middle of line

Punctuation in the middle of line

His efforts to set us at ease just embarrassed us.

He was running late and his shoe ripped.

Twin sisters married twin brothers.

She crossed the street on the red light.

Which is a juxtaposition?

City Hall: one couple getting married, next couple getting divorced

My car gets a flat on the way to the mechanic's.

Which is NOT hyperbole?

If she doesn't receive this medicine, she will die.

You are the best cook in the world.

If I don't get that car, I'll die.

the yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes

Every cloud has a silver lining

I love you more than life itself

Boy, did I ever have egg on my face!

Which of the folowing is an oxymoron?

You can save money by spending it

Conflicting words or phrases set next to each other

Two ideas that seem to make sense

Which of the following is an oxymoron?

Which came first: chicken or egg?

If you didn't get this message, call me

Which of the following is a paradox?

The nights are brighter than day

Two opposing ideas within a sentence/phrase

Two words with opposing meanings

Two identical ideas within a sentence/phrase

Two words with identical meanings

Identify the paradox.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

The blank page stared back at me.

Identify the paradox.

If you want peace, you must prepare for war.

Robert carefully built a model of the ship.

Remember to take out the trash.

Poetic Devices Quiz

Authored by Jennifer Hardisty

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

stanza

tone

rhyme

imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a pattern of rhyming called in a poem?

rhyme plan

rhyme scheme

rhyme dream

rhyme clan

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a comparison using like or as?

symbol

simile

assonance

consonance

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a comparison NOT using like or as?

metaphor

rhyme scheme

tone

symbol

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a poem that does not have a rhyme scheme called?

free verse

freedom

free for all

nothing in life is free

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an example of a symbol?

a rose

thinking

actions

apologies

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which example is an alliteration?

Green goldfish grow on grapes

Cows wow brown sows

Mad as a rad hatter

Struts and frets with little bits

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

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Poetic Devices Quiz

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

What is a pattern of rhyming called in a poem?

What is a comparison using like or as?

What is a comparison NOT using like or as?

What is a poem that does not have a rhyme scheme called?

What is an example of a symbol?

Which example is an alliteration?

What are two examples of themes?

What is a moral?

What is imagery?

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