poetic devices

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

• alliteration

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

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Which of the following is NOT an example of rhyme?

• I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
• And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot.  He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not!"
• Then he shut up the things in a box with a hook.  And the cat went away with a sad kind of look.
• And THEN! Who was back in the house? Why, the cat!

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.  Your heart's an empty hole.
• It came without packages, boxes or bags!
• Roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!
• It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of alliteration?

• Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee
• Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam
• Rosy's going riding on her red rinoceros
• For I had a story that no one could beat, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street!

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Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!
• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...
• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!
• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

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Which of the following is NOT a simile?

• We were all knitting Thneedsjust as busy as bees,to the sound of the choppingof Truffula Trees.
• The touch of their tuftswas much softer than silk.And they had the sweet smellof fresh butterfly milk.
• But I'm also in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-lootswho played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suitsand happily lived, eating Truffula Fruits.
• UNLESS someone like youcares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better.It's not.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?

• Mr. Brown is as smart as they come, he can go like a hippopotamus chewing gum!
• He can go like a train choo choo choo choo
• He can go like a cow, he can go moo moo
• ...like a big cat drinking slurp slurp slurp

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Which of these does NOT contain personification?

• “I think you’re a fool!” laughed the sour kangaroo and the young kangaroo in her pouch said, “Me, too!"
• On the 15th of May, in the Jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing… enjoying the jungle’s great joys… When Horton the elephant heard a small noise. 
• Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg: “I’m tired and I’m bored And I’ve kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day."
• The elephant laughed. “Why, of all silly things! I haven’t feathers and I haven’t wings. Me on your egg? Why, that doesn’t make sense… Your egg is so small, ma’am, and I’m so immense!”

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Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The gentle giant jumped in jubilation. 
This is an example of a/an: 

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration

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