Figurative Language and Poetry

Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?

• William wondered why some women wore so much makeup.

• The impatient train left before its scheduled departure time.

• Math was his Achilles’ heel and always brought down his average.

• Let’s turn off the TV, there are a billion other things we could be doing.

• Yesterday was such a long day; it felt like it lasted forever.

Most poems are organized into ________.

• paragraphs

• prose

• verses

• stanzas

Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

• harp

• bright

• blink

• hiccup

• help

What type of figurative language device is this:

"The sea rocks me to sleep."

• personification

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

What two literary devices are used in this passage? (Note: there will be two answers to this question.)

"Tiger, tiger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night"

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

Which figurative language device is being used in this passage:

Sam waited impatiently for his older brother to calm down. “Bill, I think that you are acting like a baby,” he said.

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• hyberbole

• personification

Which figurative language device is being used below:

"The line of customers seemed to stretch on forever."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

Which two of the following answers are true about a stanza? (Note: This question will have two answers.)

• group of lines

• ends in a period

• found in a story

• separated by a space

• must have at least four lines

What poetic device is used in the excerpt below?

The sun dips

To its lowest point,

Painting the sky in colors you can’t

Find in any box of crayons.

• rhyme scheme

• limerick

• free verse

• imagery

• repetition

______ describes the way a poem looks on a page.

• prose

• form

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhythm