Poetic Terms

What device is being used in the following: '..my love is like a red, red rose'?

• Personification

• Simile

• Antithesis

• Assonance

What device is being used in the following?

'All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players'.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

What two devices are used in the following?

'While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.'

• Simile

• Sibilance

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

What device is being used in the following quotation?

'Parting is such sweet sorrow'.

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Assonance

What device is being used in the following quotations?

'Here's much to do with love but more with hate', 'my only love sprung from my only hate'

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rhyme

What sound device is being used in the following?

"Oh, the bells, bells, bells!

What a tale their terror tells

Of Despair!

How they clang, and clash, and roar!"

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Sibilance

What device is being illustrated in the following?

rainbow=hope

rose=romance

white=innocence

• Juxtaposition

• Symbolism

• Imagery

• Personification

What device is being used by Juliet in the following quotation?

'O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?'

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

What sound devices is being used in the following?

'The moon is a balloon in the month of June.'

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Sibilance

What device is the following?

"Sadly, Sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco."

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Antithesis

• Sibilance