Poetry Literary Devices Quiz

When words create a beat you can hear.

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

• Poet

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

The beginning sounds of words repeat.

• Alliteration
• Idiom

• Similie

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The pattern of rhyming words at the end of a line.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Poet

• Speaker

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

A word used as a sound. For example, pow, boom, buzz...

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Internal Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Words or phrases that repeat to emphasize something important.

• Repetition
• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Poet

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

The person who wrote the poem.

• Poet
• Speaker

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

The person who telling the poem from their point of view.

• Speaker
• Poet

• Internal Rhyme

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

Aiden compares his speed to a cheetah's using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Addy noticed that the old tree in her backyard seemed to whisper secrets to the wind.

• Personification

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Dominick claimed he could eat a hundred burgers in one sitting.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4