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Poetic Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
2.
The gentle giant jumped in jubilation. 
This is an example of a/an: 
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
3.
Your brain is a computer. 
This is an example of a/an: 
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
4.
The bird flew as fast as the wind. 
This is an example of a/an: 
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
5.
The pool glittered like a mirror. 
This is an example of a/an: 
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration 
c)
simile
6.

Which of the following is an example of personification?

a)

"You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."

b)

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are."

c)

"The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."

d)

"Life is a highway."

7.

“Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags."

a)

Irony

b)

Onomatopeia

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

8.

"If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/ come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs"

a)

Personification

b)

Imagery

c)

Metaphor

d)

Irony

9.

“I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling, I bear in the tide.”

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Pun

d)

Irony

10.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

a)

alliteration

b)

personification

c)

repetition

d)

meter

11.

Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

blank verse

12.

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

a)

imagery

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

meter

d)

figurative language

13.

Sounds, words, or phrases used again and again.

a)

refrain

b)

repetition

c)

alliteration

d)

meter

14.

The general topic of a poem.

a)

personification

b)

mataphor

c)

meter

d)

theme

15.
Which of the following is NOT an example of rhyme?
a)
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
b)
And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot.  He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not!"
c)
Then he shut up the things in a box with a hook.  And the cat went away with a sad kind of look.
d)
And THEN! Who was back in the house? Why, the cat!
16.
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
a)
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.  Your heart's an empty hole.
b)
It came without packages, boxes or bags!
c)
Roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!
d)
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
17.
Which of the following is NOT an example of alliteration?
a)
Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee
b)
Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam
c)
Rosy's going riding on her red rinoceros
d)
For I had a story that no one could beat, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street!
18.
Which of the following is an example of personification?
a)
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
b)
Ben's bent broom breaks
c)
New socks, two socks.  Whose socks? Sue's socks.
d)
Fox in socks.
19.
Which of the following is NOT a simile?
a)
We were all knitting Thneedsjust as busy as bees,to the sound of the choppingof Truffula Trees.
b)
The touch of their tuftswas much softer than silk.And they had the sweet smellof fresh butterfly milk.
c)
But I'm also in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-lootswho played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suitsand happily lived, eating Truffula Fruits.
d)
UNLESS someone like youcares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better.It's not.
20.
Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
a)
Mr. Brown is as smart as they come, he can go like a hippopotamus chewing gum!
b)
He can go like a train choo choo choo choo
c)
He can go like a cow, he can go moo moo
d)
...like a big cat drinking slurp slurp slurp