Poetic Devices

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.

• My heart is a muscle.

• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.

• My heart is like a muscle.

What is onomatopoeia?

• A word or phrase that can be said forwards and backwards

•  An obviouse exaggeration

• A word that mimics a sound

• Givig human qualities to an item

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
What is being personified?

• Adele

• The store

• High heels

• Her

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."

• The repetition of a letter.

• The repetition of an ending sound.

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Simile

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical

• Old-fashioned

• Important

• Difficult

In which poetic device are human qualities and actions attributed to an inanimate object.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole