WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
A stanza is similar to a(n):
Essay
Paragraph
Line
The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
The grass grew green in the graveyard
Consonance
Alliteration
Assonance
Metaphor
Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
The child's eyes shined as bright as the night sky.
Ben's bent broom breaks
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling / My beautiful Annabel Lee;
While the power forward explodes past them / in a fury, taking the ball into the air
Which of the following is NOT a simile?
The Lorax is as wise as a wizard.
He loves his shoes / cloth like a sail / rubber like a sailboat on the rough sea
A hook shot kisses the rim / and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop
Letting the play develop in front of him, / in slow motion, almost exactly / like a coach's drawing on the blackboard
Identify the poetic device used in the following quote below:
"Standing brave in the secret caves
We call to lost kids in the crowds."
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Slant Rhyme
End Rhyme
Identify the literary device:
The track stretched on forever.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Identify the poetic device below:
"If love is like a bridge
or maybe like a grudge" (by Jordan Wolff)
End rhyme
Slant rhyme
Internal rhyme
Identify the literary device in the following example:
"Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings tunes with out words / And never stops at all"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
What is the allusion?
If they keep pushing me, I'm going to turn into the Hulk.
Keep pushing me
Me
Turn into
The Hulk
What is the meaning of the allusion?
Ask me anything, I'm like Google over here.
I can search answers
I know all the answers
I don't know anything
I have some answers
What is a slant rhyme?
The rhyme scheme of a poem.
When two words loosely rhyme.
When the last words of each line in a poem rhyme.
Poetry that is written with no rhyme scheme.
