WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Which of the following is an example of personification?
"You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are."
"The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."
"Life is a highway."
“Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags."
Irony
Onomatopeia
Simile
Metaphor
"If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/ come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs"
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Irony
“I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling, I bear in the tide.”
Simile
Metaphor
Pun
Irony
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
alliteration
personification
repetition
meter
Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".
simile
metaphor
alliteration
blank verse
The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
imagery
onomatopoeia
meter
figurative language
Sounds, words, or phrases used again and again.
refrain
repetition
alliteration
meter
The general topic of a poem.
personification
mataphor
meter
theme
