Poetic Devices Test

"I stabbed at a wedding-cake" is an example of...

• persuasive language

• emotive language

• sensuous imagery

• figurative language

"...a mind as cold as the slice of ice..." is figurative language but more specifically...

• a metaphor

• personification

• a simile

• connotation

"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.

"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

"...to where the car was parked.

A Vauxhall Astra. It was hired."

Is an example of ...

• enjambment

• connotation

• onomatopoeia

• end-stopped line.

"Who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?"

Is an example of

• figurative language

• rhetorical question

• interrogative adjective

• motif

"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

"...he like the breeze to run it's fingers through his hair." is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• anthropomorphism

"Bang. I stabbed...." is an example of

• sensuous language

• figurative language

• onomatopoeia

• Assonance

"..the day was moderate to fair.

...you can walk from there." is an example of

• rhythm

• rhyme

• repetition

• alliteration