Poetry Quiz Review

The streets were strange and still, / Through the doors of the open churches

The organs were moaning shrill.

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole

• personification

She soothed her secret sorrow.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Vague pageants woven on a web of dream!

And we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream / Of modern life

• simile

• metaphor

• understatement

• hyperbole

He would contemplate the distance / With a look of pensive meaning,

As of ducks that die in ill tempests.

• simile

• metaphor

• understatement

• onomatopoeia

On the dusty earth-drum

Beats the falling rain;

Now a whispered murmur,

Now a louder strain.

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

• rhyme

• repetition

Palely reflected in the amber-colored water;

Among them a constant banjo-twanging of frogs,

And shrilling of toads and of insects

Rises and falls in chorus rhythmic and stirring.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• rhythm

When morning mingles with the gloom

On empty stage and twilit aisle,

She comes with rag and pan and broom

To work--and dream awhile.

• alliteration

• rhyme

• rhythm

• repetition

Radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;

And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours, Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;

• alliteration

• rhyme

• repetition

• assonance

Over broad fields, a sound of thrushes' wings

Near sunset hour, a girl with lips apart,

Wonder and laughter,--these have touched my heart

And left their music lingering on its strings.

• alliteration

• assonance

• rhyme

• rhythm