Poetic Techniques

Which technique compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Caesura

Which technique uses words that sound like the noises they are describing?

• Enjambment

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Which technique describes sentence running onto multiple lines of a poem.

• Enjambment

• Caesura

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Which technique describes an object or animal with qualities of a human.

• Simile

• Caesura

• Metaphor

• Personification

Which technique is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?

• Enjambment

• Caesura

• Repetition

• Metaphor

Which technique compares two things without using ‘as’ or ‘like’ saying one thing IS another.

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Which technique uses a series of key words that begin with the same sound.

• Caesura

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Which technique uses a word, phrase or image multiple times in a poem.

• Personification

• Simile

• Enjambment

• Repetition

Which technique is being used here?

My flowers were begging for water.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Which technique is being used here?

Tick-tock, tick-tock… the sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting room.

• Onomatopoeia

• Caesura

• Repetition

• Metaphor