POETIC DEVICES and TERMS

Which phrase is NOT a simile?

• He's a workhorse.

• He's as strong as an ox.

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Which phrase IS a simile?

• It is ice cold in this room.

• You're as cold as ice.

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What is a simile?

• a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• another word for grin; showing happiness

• a type of poem in which two things are compared

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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

• A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• A small body of matter that falls from outer space

• A type of poem in which two things are compared

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Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• The house was a carnival

• The house was noisy like a carnival

• The house had a carnival-like atmosphere

• The carnival moved into the house

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Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• She was a gazelle

• She ran faster than a gazelle

• A gazelle couldn't run faster than she did

• She was as graceful as a gazelle

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Alex had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach.
*What is the onomatopoeia?

• grumbling
• teacher
• stomach

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Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Mrs. Davis was sitting by her pond listening to the frogs croak.  

• croak
• Mrs. Davis
• frogs
• pond

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• "You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."

• "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

  How I wonder what you are."

• "The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."

• "Life is a highway."

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• "Because I could not stop for Death –

  He kindly stopped for me."

• "The stars winked in the night sky."

• "Our life is like a thorny rose

  Not perfect, but always beautiful."

• "I am the hope and the dream of the slave."

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