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WorksheetsPoetic Devices & Song 7I (PART 1)
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 14mins
A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"
metaphor
simile
imagery
alliteration
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
onomatopoeia
anaphora
hyperbole
alliteration
"You have a heart of gold" is an example of what poetic device?
simile
personification
anaphora
metaphor
What poetic device is Elvis Presley using in this song?
"You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Quit snoopin’ ’round my door
You can wag your tail
But I ain’t gonna feed you no more."
hyperbole
metaphor
imagery
What poetic device gives human traits to non-human things?
personification
imagery
rhyme
simile
This is an example of what poetic device?
imagery
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
The type of repetition that happens at the beginning of a line or phrase
rhyme
alliteration
anaphora
simile
What poetic device is Frank SInatra using in these lines? "I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king"
alliteration
onomatopoeia
simile
simile
"Like a moth to the flame, burned by the fire" is what poetic device
simile
metaphor
anaphora
A stanza is similar to a(n):
Essay
Paragraph
Line
The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
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
A central message or insight about life that sits at the center of each poem
(a)
the structure of poetry
sentences & paragraphs
sentences & stanzas
lines & paragraphs
lines & stanzas
An object, person, or idea that represents something beyond itself.
(a)
