Poetic Devices Quiz

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison between two unlike things where one thing is said to be another.

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis in poems and stories.

• Humor

• Cliche

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Nonverbal

• Splat!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a theme?

• The author's main point in a paragraph.

• The lesson or moral of the story (narrative).

• The author's main point of the entire text.

• A one-word subject such as love, bravery, or rebellion.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which term refers to the act of giving human characteristics to objects or abstract ideas?

• Personification

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Match the following

• An object that represents something else

• symbol

• direct comparison without like or/as

• metaphor

• words whose sound imitates meaning

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Match the following

• an exaggeration

• imagery

• comparison using like or as

• simile

• language that appeals to the senses

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The cat in the hat swung the bat.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Consonance

• Assonance