Dulce Poetical Devices

What poetic device is primarily used in the line “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”?

• Simile
  

• 
  Metaphor
  

• 
  Personification
  

• 
  D) Onomatopoeia

The phrase “coughing like hags” contains which poetic device?

• 
  Simile

• 
  
  
  Hyperbole
  
  

• Alliteration
  

• 
  D) Irony

In the line “Men marched asleep,” what device is being used to describe the soldiers?

• Simile
  

• 
  Hyperbole
  (Exaggeration)

• 
  Metaphor
  

• 
  Onomatopoeia (Sounds)

The phrase “blood-shod” is an example of which poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Oxymoron (Opposites)

What type of imagery is evoked in the line “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light”?

• Auditory (sound)

• Tactile (touch)

• Visual (sight)

• Olfactory (smell)

The line “guttering, choking, drowning” is an example of which two devices?

• Alliteration (beginning letters are the same) and Onomatopoeia (sounds)

• Alliteration (beginning letters are the same) and Imagery

• Onomatopoeia (sounds) and Simile

• Onomatopoeia (sounds) and Imagery

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” is an example of which poetic device?

• Hyperbole (Exaggeration)

• Metaphor (A suggestion of likeness)

• Irony

  (Deliberate contradictory, sarcasm)

• Simile ("like" or "as")

What poetic device is used in the repetition of sounds in “knock-kneed”?

• Repetition
  

• 
  Simile

• Metaphor

• 
  Alliteration (Beginning letters are the same)

In the line “like a man in fire or lime,” the poet uses which of the following poetic devices?

• Hyperbole (Exaggeration)
  

• 
  Simile
  

• 
  Metaphor
  

• Personification (Making a non-human/object appear to have human qualities)

What is the primary effect of the device used in the phrase “flound’ring like a man in fire or lime”?

• To evoke anger

• To use colour

• To make the scene more vivid

• To mock traditional war narratives