Poetic Devices Test
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8th - 10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"I stabbed at a wedding-cake" is an example of...
persuasive language
emotive language
sensuous imagery
figurative language
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"...a mind as cold as the slice of ice..." is figurative language but more specifically...
a metaphor
personification
a simile
connotation
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
"My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name..." is an example of... (may be more than one answer)
a simile
personification
figurative language
a metaphor
Answer explanation
It is a metaphor which is part of a group of terms making up figurative language.
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"I let him have it
on the top road out of Harrogate - once
with the head, then six times ..."
is an example of
imagery
stanza
sensuous language
enjambment
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"...to where the car was parked.
A Vauxhall Astra. It was hired."
Is an example of ...
enjambment
connotation
onomatopoeia
end-stopped line.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RF.K.2A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?"
Is an example of
figurative language
rhetorical question
interrogative adjective
motif
Tags
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
CCSS.W.7.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"My last Duchess...my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name...my lady's wrist..." are examples of first person writing using...
adjectives
proper nouns
prepositions
pronouns
Tags
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
CCSS.W.7.2D
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