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Poetry Techniques

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

simile

b)

sibilance

c)

rhyme

d)

irony

e)

onomatopoeia

2.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

a)

sibilance

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

hyperbole

3.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

alliteration

c)

imagery

d)

rhyme

e)

irony

4.

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.

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

sibilance

c)

allusion

d)

irony

e)

metonymy

5.

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.

a)

personification

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

irony

d)

sibiliance

e)

alliteration

6.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

Mike was an absolute pig at dinner, and left food stains all over the tablecloth.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

metonymy

e)

allusion

7.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

He was as blind as a bat without his glasses.

a)

sibilance

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

personification

e)

imagery

8.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

The story was so good it jumped off the page!

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

rhyme

e)

allusion

9.

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.

a)

hyperbole

b)

allusion

c)

metonymy

d)

imagery

e)

alliteration

10.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:

The baby cried so loud my eardrums exploded.

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

sibilance

d)

alliteration

e)

metonymy

11.

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."

a)

metonymy

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

rhyme

12.

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.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

rhyme

e)

alliteration

13.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):

Delightful display

Snowdrops bow their pure white heads

To the sun's glory.

a)

personification

b)

imagery

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

rhyme

14.

Select the poetry technique at use in these lines (2 answers):

"We are all doing a Quizizz right now."

"Wow, genius observation, Sherlock."

a)

irony

b)

allusion

c)

rhyme

d)

metaphor

e)

metonymy