Poetic / Figurative language Devices

For the following questions please read the example and choose what device(s) are being used. This quiz is out of 22 points.

• Ok- I understand. Choose this option.

• No, do not choose this option.

• No, not this one either.

• If you do not click the one that says, "Ok-I understand" you will lose this point.

Choose 2...

"Amid this hot green glowing gloom

A word falls with a raindrop's boom...."

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Rhyme

"The little clattering stones along the street

Dance with each other around my swimming feet;"

• Rhythm

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Choose 2...

"Click-clack, click-clack, the hour is chill,

The dead coach climbs the distant hill."

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

• Consonance

• Simile

Pounded on the table, / Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,

Hard as they were able, / Boom, boom, BOOM,

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Choose 2...

O'er leagues of land and water a weary way you'll go

Before you'll find the country where the blue roses grow.

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Choose 2...

"All his thoughts as a river flowed,

Flowed aflame as fleet he rode."

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

Choose 2

The beating hearts of the stars aloof

Kept time to the beat of the horse's hoof.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

Choose 2

Fast, and fast, by the road he knew;

And slow, and slow, the stars withdrew;

• Simile

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhythm

Which is the correct spelling of a word that imitates the sound it actually makes?

• Onomatopoia

• Onometopiea

• Onomonopia

• Onomatopoeia