Poetic Devices

Which poetic device is used in the following sentence?

Toby was as strong as an ox.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify which poetic device is used in the sentence below:

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

The repetition of the same consonant letter or sound at the beginning of a group of words is called:

• alliteration

• assonance

• allusion

• anthropomorphism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

A figure of speech where exaggeration is used for effect or to stress a point...

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• irony

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A word that imitates the natural sound of a thing...

• allusion

• personification

• symbolism

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The sentence "She is a walking dictionary." is an example of:

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The same sound being repeated

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What structure is poetry written in?

• lines and stanzas

• sentences and stanzas

• lines and paragraphs

• sentences and paragraphs

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

The pattern that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry is called a poem's...

• couplet

• limerick

• rhyme scheme

• triplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

-"The Life of a Cupcake", by Shelby Greer

• rhythm

• assonance

• AABB

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4