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Figures of Speech in Poetry

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

2nd - 5th Grade

10 Questions

CCSS covered

Figures of Speech in Poetry
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Figures of speech are tools that writers use to create images, or “paint pictures,” in your mind.

True
False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"The clouds cry when their load is heavy." What is this an example of?

Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What compares two things without using the words “like” or “as”.

Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following poem is an example of the what figure of speech?
 Flint
An emerald is as green as grass,  A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;  A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,  To catch the world’s desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;  But a flint holds fire.
  By Christina Rosetti

Simile
Personification
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Molly must make her muffins" is an example of ____________?

Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human – like animals or objects.

Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Voice” is the speaker in a poem. 

True
False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

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