English - Grade 8 - Poetry Lesson 3

Match the following literary devices with the examples.

• Her dancing was as smooth as a flowing river.

• Assonance

• The wedding was a fairytale.

• Simile

• The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque.

• Personification

• The sunflowers hung their heads.

• Metaphor

• The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.

• Alliteration

This math problem is as easy as pie is an example of...

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Laughter is the music of the soul is an example of...

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• assonance

The sun kissed my cheeks when I went outside is an example of...

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

In poetry, the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza is called...

• free verse

• continuation

• an endless line

• enjambment

Which of these lines from Romeo and Juliet are examples of enjambment?

When he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

• Lines 2-3

• Lines 3-4

• Lines 4-5

• Line 5