Poetry Devices Practice

What device is used here:
She is a shining star in her class.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What device is used here:
Boom! The door shut suddenly after Jake walked outside. 

• Alliteration 

• Personification 

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia 

What device is used here: 
While I nodded, nearly
napping, suddenly there
came a tapping...

• Personification 

• Alliteration 

• Repetition

• Refrain 

What device is used here: 
When I was a child
I spoke like a child
I understood
as a child
I thought as a child

• Refrain

• Alliteration 

• Repetition 

• Idioms 

Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.
This is an example of:

• Imagery

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Little Lady Icicle is waking in the north-land, 
And shaking in the north-land her pillow to and fro; 
And the hurricane a-skirling 
Sends the feathers all a-whirling 
Where little Lady Icicle is waking in the snow. 

• This stanza shows IMAGERY.

• This stanza shows SIMILE.

Words or phrases that relate to the 5 senses

• Sound Devices

• Sensory Details

• Alliteration

• Imagery 

The repetition of one or more initial sounds in words within a line is called

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words is called

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Read the following passage:

Hooray say the roses, cannons and spires birds, bees, bombers, today is Friday

Choose all the devices that apply to the passage.

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• rhyme