Poetic Devices Quiz

The clouds were as fluffy as cotton.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

The wind whispered through the trees.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Time is a thief that steals our moments.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

She sells seashells by the seashore.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Simile

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

The moon smiled down at us.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

The classroom was a zoo.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

His hands were cold like ice.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Simile

My backpack weighs a ton!

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification