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WorksheetsPoetry Techniques
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
simile
sibilance
rhyme
irony
onomatopoeia
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
sibilance
alliteration
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
imagery
rhyme
irony
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
First the boing of the slinky,
then the pitter patter of feet chasing after,
last the squeals of laughter.
onomatopoeia
sibilance
allusion
irony
metonymy
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
personification
onomatopoeia
irony
sibiliance
alliteration
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
Mike was an absolute pig at dinner, and left food stains all over the tablecloth.
metaphor
simile
personification
metonymy
allusion
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
He was as blind as a bat without his glasses.
sibilance
simile
allusion
personification
imagery
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
The story was so good it jumped off the page!
personification
alliteration
simile
rhyme
allusion
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):
My backpack is so heavy not even Thor or The Rock could pick it up.
hyperbole
allusion
metonymy
imagery
alliteration
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
The baby cried so loud my eardrums exploded.
hyperbole
personification
sibilance
alliteration
metonymy
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
"I just got a brand new set of wheels and I'm dying to try them out!"
"Wow! You got a Ferrari! That's amazing."
metonymy
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
rhyme
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
The businessman was totally Machiavellian, and put profit above all else.
Our teacher is a real Jekyll and Hyde: one day he's totally normal, and the next day he screams about everything.
metaphor
simile
allusion
rhyme
alliteration
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):
Delightful display
Snowdrops bow their pure white heads
To the sun's glory.
personification
imagery
simile
metaphor
rhyme
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):
"We are all doing a Quizizz right now."
"Wow, genius observation, Sherlock."
irony
allusion
rhyme
metaphor
metonymy
