
Poetic Devices
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of personification?
"You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are."
"The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."
"Life is a highway."
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
"The day was as hot as the sun."
"Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes."
"The stars winked in the night sky."
"His opponent was looking for his Achilles’ heel to beat him."
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me."
"The stars winked in the night sky."
"Our life is like a thorny rose
Not perfect, but always beautiful."
"I am the hope and the dream of the slave."
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.”
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopeia
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may kill me with your hatefulness”
Imagery
Pun
Hyperbole
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Pun
Meter
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
Assonance
Consonance
Metaphor
Symbolism
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
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