WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
I'm growing fonder of my staff; / I'm growing dimmer in the eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh; / I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
Which techniques are being used?
Rhythm
Repetition
Personification
Confound the cats! All cats--away-- / Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;
By night a nuisance and by day-- / Confound the cats! All cats, always.
What techniques are being used?
Alliteration
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week, / Beneath the apple-trees;
I thought my eyes were big pork-pies, / And my nose was Stilton cheese.
What techniques are being used?
Metaphor
Rhyme
Rhythm
Alliteration
O Sea! whose ancient ripples lie on red-ribbed sands where seaweeds shone;
O moon! whose golden sickle's gone,
Which technique is being used
Simile
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Across the moorlands of the Not / We chase the gruesome When;
And hunt the Itness of the What / Through forests of the Then.
Which technique is being used?
Metophor
Rhyme
Idiom
BANG!!! There goes another building, / BOOM!!! And there go 2 more,
Said the man who took target practice / In the seat of a military tank.
BAM!!! There goes another. / Life is hard when you don't have a father to guide you.
BOOM!!! You could end up in jail, / BANG!!! You could end up crazy,
AHHHH!!! Or you could end up dead / Because you pressed the wrong button.
What techniques are being used?
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Alliteration
Big Balloons Bounce into the / Big Blue Sky / Up, up, and away / There they go
Which techniques are being used?
Personification
Alliteration
Repetition
Buzz, goes the blue fly, / Hum, goes the bee,
Buzz and hum they cry, / And so do we:
Which technique is being used?
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Simile
There was a crow sat on a stone, / When he was gone, then there was none.
Which technique is being used?
rhythm
irony
metaphor
Tiger, Tiger burning bright, / in the forests of the night,
Which techniques are being used?
Rhyme
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
