Poetic Features

'They were fighting like cats and dogs'

is an example of a:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Rhyme

• Stanza

What is the definition of personification?

• A rhyming pattern

• When you are comparing things and use 'like' or 'as'

• Making objects or animals have human qualities

• When a nonhuman thing acts like an animal

What poetic feature is used in the lines below:

Baa Baa black sheep

have you any wool?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following uses Alliteration?

• The clock went tick tock

• She was as smart as a machine

• Sly snakes slither slowly

• His face was like a tomato

Which of the following is an example of a Metaphor?

• The thunder roared like a tiger

• The cafeteria is a jungle

• Tim the terrifying tiger takes time talking

• The sun smiled upon fields of gold