Poetry Review

Identify the following poetic device:

When the ending syllables of two or more words sound the same.

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Identify the following poetic device:

a pattern of rhymes (i.e., aabb or abcb)

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Identify the following poetic device:

One look at the garden and you could tell that the plants were begging for water.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Identify the following poetic device:

Goddard goes golfing.

• Assonance

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Identify the following poetic device:

The football players had legs like tree trunks.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Identify the following poetic device:

Mr. Perez gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Identify the following poetic device:

a group of lines that resemble a paragraph

What is the rhyme scheme?

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

• ABBB

• ABCA

• ABAB

• ABCB

The author’s attitude refers to what literary device?

• Mood

• Theme

• Tone

• Onomatopoeia

The fallen leaves are Cornflakes under my feet.

Is an example of what literary device?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia