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WorksheetsPoetic Techniques
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which technique compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Caesura
Which technique uses words that sound like the noises they are describing?
Enjambment
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Which technique describes sentence running onto multiple lines of a poem.
Enjambment
Caesura
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Which technique describes an object or animal with qualities of a human.
Simile
Caesura
Metaphor
Personification
Which technique is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?
Enjambment
Caesura
Repetition
Metaphor
Which technique compares two things without using ‘as’ or ‘like’ saying one thing IS another.
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Which technique uses a series of key words that begin with the same sound.
Caesura
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Which technique uses a word, phrase or image multiple times in a poem.
Personification
Simile
Enjambment
Repetition
Which technique is being used here?
My flowers were begging for water.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Metaphor
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.
Onomatopoeia
Caesura
Repetition
Metaphor
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.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Caesura
Repetition
Which technique is being used here?
Jerry's mind wandered during class / Like a balloon floating up in the air.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Which technique is being used here?
Morning / And the Island man wakes up / To the sound of blue surf / In his head
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Enjambment
Caesura
Which technique is being used here?
Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Which technique is being used here?
Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east
Enjambment
Caesura
Repetition
Metaphor
Which technique is being used here?
The ship sailed and sank
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Caesura
Write your own simile.
Write your own metaphor.
Write your own example of personification.
Write a sentence that uses onomatopoeia.
Write a sentence that uses alliteration.
Write a sentence that uses repetition.
