7 Core Poetry Revision

Select the example of onomatopoeia.

• Tom was as fast as a Cheetah.

• Zip Zip Boing!

• I love you to the moon and back.

• The flowers are happy.

Select the example of a simile.

• I'm freezing to death.

• He was as tall as a giraffe.

• She was a star.

• Whoop whoop!

Muttering and mumbling is an example of...

• assonance

• alliteration

• repetition

• personification

He was the hulk on the football field is an example of....

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

What poetic devices can you spot?

Mother duck said quack, quack, quack

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

What is assonance?

• Giving an object human traits.

• The repetition of the same vowel sound followed by different consonants.

• Repetition of words.

• Repetition of initial sounds.

What is personification?

• Giving an object human traits.

• Repeating initial sounds.

• A word to represent a sound.

• Exaggeration.

Near, far, wherever you are.

You'll be there in my heart.

What kind of rhyming scheme is this?

• Internal

• End

What rhyming scheme is this:

I have a cat.

He sleeps soundly on the mat.

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

What poetic device is this?

He screamed the house down.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification