Form 1 English B - Poetry Quiz

1. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: "The sun smiled upon the sandy beach." (a)  

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

2. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: “And as Demeter wept, the trees wept with her, shedding their leaves in brown and yellow tears."

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

3. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: "Her face is as flat as an ironing board."

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

4. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: "The pen danced across the page."

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

5. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: "This is the worst day of my life."

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

6. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: “Olivia dismissed her maid and leaned forward so that her eyes sparkled like stars within the night of her veil.”

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

7. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: "There’s enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army, two herds of cattle and 10 lions."

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

8. Choose the correct literary device for this sentence: “They tried to draw their doddering swords, that surely would have shaken more like straws in the wind…”

• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

9. Write a sentence that personifies the image below.

10. Write a sentence that personifies the image below.