Poetic Devices P.1 Umoja

A group of lines arranged together in a poem is called a ___________.

• Form

• Prose

• Stanza

When a poet gives human qualities to an object in order to animate it, the poet is using the poetic device of ________________.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Pun

• Oxymoron

"Picture me rolling..."

The above sentence uses the poetic device of ___________.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

Chevy says their trucks are "built like a rock."

Which poetic device is Chevy's advertising team employing?

• Simile

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Both A and C

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Which poetic device from the answers below does the poet employ?

• Alliteration

• End Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Which poetic device is in play here?

• Alliteration

• Couplet

• Limerick

Free verse could have rhyme in it.

True or False?

• True

• False

When Mr. Rader was in high school and on the track team, he was a cheetah; he ran as fast as a cheetah.

Which of the following poetic devices are in play above?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• All ("A" and "B" and "C")