"My love is like a red, red rose" is an example of which literary device?

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Simile

• Idiom

Which of the following are repeating sounds within a poetic line? Choose all that apply.

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

The following line of poetry is an example of which literary device?

"The Eyes around—had wrung them dry"

Which literary device do you feel is the most abused?

• Pun

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

First, what literary device is employed? Second, what is the poet trying to tell us in the lines?

The apparition of the faces in the corwd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

The following is an example of which type of literary device?

You cannot have the best of both worlds!

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

• idiom

The following is an example of which literary device?

I am one of many

Small branches of a broken tree,

Always looking to the ones above

For guidance, strength and security.

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

• idiom

What is the difference between a paradox and an oxymoron?

What is the difference between a synecdoche and a metonymy?

What does the following line mean to you? Why?

Bridges of bones they have built over the centuries.