Poetic Device Review

Name the Device:

Well, I’m no Hercules, but I could open that jelly jar for you.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Assonance

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The river rushed rapidly over the rocks

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Assonance

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Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Assonance

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Try as I might, the kite did not fly

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Assonance

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It took forever to find you.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

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Marriage counselor divorcing the third wife

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Assonance

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Don’t trust his words, he is cunning like a fox.

• Irony

• Simile

• Paradox

• Assonance

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He was a man of great statue.

• malapropism

• onomatopoeia

• Euphemism

• Personification

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He’s got the stench of failure.

• malapropism

• metaphor

• allusion

• Personification

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The tap dripped water all night long.

• malapropism

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• Personification