WorksheetsPALCS Poetry Practice!
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
The device used below is an example of:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Rhyme
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
The device used below is an example of:
"Her voice is like sunshine."
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Assonance
The device used below is an example of:
"He found a shell that even shimmered in the shade."
Assonance
Consonance
Alliteration
Rhyme
The device used below is an example of:
"The flute sang beautifully at the concert."
Personification
Metaphor
Meter
Idiom
The device in green below is an example of:
"The play is about to start, break a leg!"
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Consonance
The device(s) used below is an example of:
"The aroma of hot, apple pie floated across the room,” and “Thunder rolled outside my window”
Choose 2
Imagery
Assonance
Alliteration
Personification
The device(s) highlighted in green below are example(s) of:
“Baby now we got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love"
- Taylor Swift "Bad Blood"
Choose 2
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
Alliteration
The device used below is an example of:
"Her eyes glistened like diamonds as tears streamed down her face"
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Rhyme
The device in green below is an example of:
"Go slow on the road so that you make it home safely."
Consonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Irony
The device used below is an example of:
"The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur."
Metaphor
Personification
Repetition
Hyperbole
The device used below is an example of:
"Andrew always knows the right thing to say."
Imagery
Assonance
Metaphor
Hyperbole
The sound device most used below is an example of:
"Not a yes sir, Not a follower
Fit the box, fit the mold
Have a seat in the foyer, take a number
I was lightning before the thunder"
-Imagine Dragons "Thunder"
Rhyme
Repetition
Idiom
Assonance
The sound device below is an example of:
"Well you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man"
- Aloe Blacc "I'm the Man"
Rhyme
Repetition
Hyperbole
Alliteration
The device used most below is an example of:
"You‘re a falling star, you‘re the getaway car
You‘re the line in the sand when I go too far."
- Michael Buble
Simile
Idiom
Metaphor
Consonance
The sound device in green below is an example of:
"Don’t you tell me what you think that I can be
I’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my sea, oh ooh
The master of my sea, oh ooh"
- Imagine Dragons "Believer"
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Rhyme
The sound device best used below is an example of:
"The player zipped by the zonal defense and zeroed in on the end zone"
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
Hyperbole
The device in green below is an example of:
"You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it.
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes.
You’re paralyzed."
-Michael Jackson "Thriller"
Personification
Hyperbole
Consonance
Repetition
The device(s) in green below are an example(s) of:
"You just gotta ignite the light.
And let it shine."
-Katy Perry "Firework"
Choose 2
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Hyperbole
The device in green below is an example of:
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me"
- The Beatles "Let It Be"
Consonance
Alliteration
Personification
Imagery
The device in green below is an example of:
"My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note"
- Gym Class Hero's "Stereo Hearts"
Consonance
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
The device used below is an example of:
"Janet worked her fingers to the bone"
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Imagery
The device(s) below are an example(s) of:
"Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone"
- Frozen "Let It Go"
Choose 2
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Repetition
The device in green below is an example of:
"And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride" - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Assonance
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
The device in green below is an example of:
“You’re insecure,
Don’t know what for,
You’re turning heads when you walk through the door.”
- One Direction "That's What Makes You Beautiful"
Consonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The device(s) used below are example(s) of:
"Then like a cold wave on a shore, comes silence and she sings no more."
Choose 2
Rhyme
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom
The sound device best used below is an example of:
“Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance, five-hour phone conversation?”
-Train "Drops of Jupiter"
Alliteration
Repetition
Hyperbole
Idiom
The device in green below is an example of:
"Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test and don’t ask why
It’s not a question but a lesson learned in time."
- Green Day "Good Riddance"
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
The device(s) used below are an example(s) of:
The highway won’t hold you tonight
The highway don’t know you’re alive
The highway don’t care if you’re all alone
But I do, I do."
- Tim McGraw ft. Taylor Swift "Highway Don't Care"
Choose 2
Repetition
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
The device used most below is an example of:
"In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school"
- Will Smith "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Assonance
Consonance
Rhyme
Alliteration
The device used below is an example of:
"The heart is a bloom,
shoots up through the stony ground."
- U2 "It's a Beautiful Day"
Imagery
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Consonance
