Poetic Devices

In which poetic device are human qualities and actions attributed to an inanimate object.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

'Come and clean the chaos in your closet,' is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

They fought like cats and dogs.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humour is

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

' In the dark morning, the man laughed sadly.' This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

Boom!

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!
• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...
• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!
• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” (Richard Cushing)

• allusion

• understatement

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

"All's fair in love and war" is an example of which poetic device where two things are placed near each other to bring out their differences?

• juxtaposition

• enjambment

• figurative language

• hyperbole