WorksheetsPoetic Techniques
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Tom's eyes were ice as he stared at her.
Rhyme
Metaphor
Alliteration
Repetition
“I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Caesura
Repetition
Roses, roses! Two bucks a bunch! They say
The boys in the street, ready to sell you.
(HINT: Examples are in red)
Caesura
Metaphor
Personification
Emotive Language
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Rhyme
Imagery
Repetition
Simile
I dreamt of a drip-dropping drain in my dream.
Rhyme
Alliteration
Simile
Imagery
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Emotive Language
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
We were running
to find what had happened
beyond the hills.
Metaphor
Simile
Enjambment
Emotive Language
The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.
Caesura
Personifcation
Onomatopoeia
Enjambment
What techniques are found in this:
We were dancing—it must have
been a foxtrot or a waltz,
something romantic but
requiring restraint,
Enjambment
Caesura
Personification
Alliteration
What techniques are found in this:
After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span
Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly. More like
Some thin-hipped glittering Bowie-being—a Starman
Or cosmic ace hovering, swaying, aching to make us see
Caesura
Simile
Imagery
Enjambment
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