Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

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English
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6th Grade
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Hard
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Sarah Williams
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Leaves can't really dance. What might really be happening?
The leaves are dancing through the lawn.
Whoever wrote that is just going crazy since that could never happen.
The wind is making the leaves move across the lawn.
When music plays, the leaves dance.
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In the darkness of the night
Who could see you speeding by
Like a comet in the sky.
Which is NOT found in this stanza?
Rhyme
Simile
Personification
Repetition
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.10
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
bark-bark-barking is an example of which of the following?
simile and alliteration
onomatopoeia and repetition
repetition and hyperbole
onomatopoeia and hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
human qualities or ideas are given to non human things
idiom
alliteration
imagery
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
author's use this with descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind
onomatopoeia
imagery
metaphor
simile
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
comparing 2 unlike things using "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"
simile
metaphor
personification
assonance
Tags
CCSS.L.6.6
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.W.5.2D
CCSS.W.6.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What type of figurative language is present in the following excerpt from "Worlds Afire?"
I thought a tiger’s swipe
was fast
until I saw the fire spread.
It was like a dam burst -
water rushing
with no purpose
except to move.
personification
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
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