Poetic Devices Review

"She listened now, intently, trying to hear the heartbeat of Cuba in her own music" (Gratz 11). Choose two answers.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Identify the two types of figurative language in this sentence: Hey, you big baby, you've been sleeping for a week!

• simile and metaphor

• alliteration and simile

• personification and hyperbole

• hyperbole and oxymoron

When a word suggests or makes its own sound, it is ...

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

That tree just grabbed the hat right off my head!

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

When a word sounds like its meaning.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

This class is going down like the Titanic

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Which type of figurative language is used here:

He was a diminutive mouse of a man

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

He was stern, straightforward, and soft spoken

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Simile