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Poetic Techniques

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which technique compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Caesura

2.

Which technique uses words that sound like the noises they are describing?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Alliteration

3.

Which technique describes sentence running onto multiple lines of a poem.

a)

Enjambment

b)

Caesura

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

4.

Which technique describes an object or animal with qualities of a human.

a)

Simile

b)

Caesura

c)

Metaphor

d)

Personification

5.

Which technique is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Caesura

c)

Repetition

d)

Metaphor

6.

Which technique compares two things without using ‘as’ or ‘like’ saying one thing IS another.

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Metaphor

7.

Which technique uses a series of key words that begin with the same sound.

a)

Caesura

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

8.

Which technique uses a word, phrase or image multiple times in a poem.

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Enjambment

d)

Repetition

9.

Which technique is being used here?


My flowers were begging for water.

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

10.

Which technique is being used here?


Tick-tock, tick-tock… the sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting room.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Caesura

c)

Repetition

d)

Metaphor

11.

Which technique is being used here?


This is the man / that lies in the house of Bedlam. / This is the time of the tragic man / that lies in the house of Bedlam.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Caesura

d)

Repetition

12.

Which technique is being used here?


Jerry's mind wandered during class / Like a balloon floating up in the air.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

13.

Which technique is being used here?


Morning / And the Island man wakes up / To the sound of blue surf / In his head

a)

Repetition

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Enjambment

d)

Caesura

14.

Which technique is being used here?


Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

15.

Which technique is being used here?


Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east

a)

Enjambment

b)

Caesura

c)

Repetition

d)

Metaphor

16.

Which technique is being used here?


The ship sailed and sank

a)

Repetition

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Alliteration

d)

Caesura

17.

Write your own simile.

4 lines
18.

Write your own metaphor.

4 lines
19.

Write your own example of personification.

4 lines
20.

Write a sentence that uses onomatopoeia.

4 lines
21.

Write a sentence that uses alliteration.

4 lines
22.

Write a sentence that uses repetition.

4 lines