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Poetic Devices and Forms

Authored by Sarah Strittmatter

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetic Devices and Forms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Identify the type of figurative language being used below-


I have died everyday, waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years

metaphor

hyperbole

simile

a thousand years

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

-"Firework", Katy Perry

Simile

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

I feel glorious, glorious

Got a chance to start again

I was born for this, born for this

It's who I am, how could I forget?


-Macklemore, "Glorious"

Repetition

Metaphor

Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

I like that boom boom pow

Them chickens jackin' my style


-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"

Onomatopoeia

Imagery

Simile

Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel


-"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"

Simile and Metaphor

Allusion and symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears

So done with wishing you were still here

Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow

So why can't I turn off the radio?


-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"

Alliteration

Metphor

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

...You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes


-Michael Jackson, "Thriller"

Symbol

Simile

Personification

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.5A

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