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Poetic Device Review

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify which poetic device is used below:


He was as strong as an ox.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Extended Metaphor

2.

Identify which poetic device is used below:

The wind whispered softly...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Consonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Simile

3.

Identify which poetic device is used below:


The angry clouds marched across the sky.

a)

Personification

b)

Extended Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

4.

Identify which poetic device is used below:


The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Assonance

5.

Identify which poetic device is used below:


Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup.

a)

Enjambment

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Alliteration

d)

Cacophony

6.

Identify which poetic device is used below:


You're a crooked, jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss.

a)

Euphony

b)

Cacophony

c)

Rhythm

d)

Personification

7.

Which poetic device is used below:


It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom...

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Anaphora

d)

Assonance

8.

Which poetic device is used below:


Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air

a)

Extended Metaphor

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Euphony

d)

Cacophony

9.

Which poetic device is used below:


What light through yonder window breaks. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Cacophony

c)

Extended Metaphor

d)

Simile

10.

Which poetic device is used below:


So much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens.

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Metaphor

d)

Enjambment

11.

Which poetic device is used below:


Hold your nose cause here goes the cold water.

a)

Assonance

b)

Consonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Euphony