Poetic Devices & Figurative Language

1) A figure of speech that compares two unlike entities using the words like or as is known as a _______.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

2. Giving human characteristics to non human entities is a literary device known as:

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Using figurative language where something is described as if it is something figurative, that it could not actually be, is called a _______.

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

The literary device where the initial consonant sounds are repeated throughout a phrase is known as:

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Using words that sounds like what they describe as a literary device known as:

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• rhyme scheme

• poetry

Identify the figurative language present in the following excerpt from A Long Walk to Water:

      Salva turned round and looked. Behind him, a huge black cloud of smoke rose. Flames darted out of its base. Overhead, a jet plane veered away like a sleek evil bird.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

Identify the rhyme scheme:

“The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;  

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

 

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

• abc, abc

• aba, cdc

• abb, cdd

• aaa, bbb

The following line is an example of which of the following:

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

What type of figurative language does the following line contain?

"She struck where the white and fleecy waves

      Looked soft as carded wool"

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

What types of figurative language are present in the following lines?

"And fast through the midnight dark and drear,

      Through the whistling sleet and snow,"

• simile and metaphor

• alliteration and personification

• personification and simile

• alliteration and onomatopoeia