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Identifying Poetic Devices
Directions: Write which technique is being used on the line. There may be more than one correct answer; you may write more than one answer. Then, explain how you know your answer. Slashes represent line breaks.
Answers: alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, i diom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification.
Example 1. This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful of dead Februaries
What technique is being used? _____ Personification and Alliteration ____________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out: Februaries can’t die like humans can; therefore it is an example of personification. Also, many words begin with the letter “F” or “S”, so it also has alliteration.
- The moon is faithful, although blind
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- Time is a green orchard.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- At dusk there’s a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- They chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery Park to the Bronx
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
- A final word: before you start / The convulsions of your art,
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- That tree said / I don't like that white car under me, / or its gasoline smell
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- Life is a bowl of cherries
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- All that I hear / Is the slishity-slosh of the rain.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- My sisters tears that sing upon my head
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- I lost my freedom for free room and board / like a monkey in a zoo
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
- His new car cost him an arm and a leg.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- I laid me down upon a bank, / Where Love lay sleeping;
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- The pans clattered and banged / the tapping of the wooden spoon / tap, tap, tap
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification Explain how you figured it out:
- That’ll be the day when pigs fly.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
Answers: Identifying Poetic Devices
Directions: Write which technique is being used on the line. There may be more than one correct answer; you may write more than one answer. Then, explain how you know your answer. Slashes represent line breaks.
Answers: alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification.
Example 1. This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful of dead Februaries What technique is being used? _____ Personification and Alliteration
Explain how you figured it out: Februaries can't die like humans can; therefore it is an example of personification. Also, many words begin with the letter "F" or "S", so it also has alliteration.
- The moon is faithful, although blind What technique is being used? Personification
Explain how you figured it out:
- children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks What technique is being used? Alliteration
Explain how you figured it out:
- Time is a green orchard. What technique is being used? Metaphor
Explain how you figured it out:
- At dusk there's a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons What technique is being used? Simile and Alliteration
- I lost my freedom for free room and board / like a monkey in a zoo What technique is being used? Simile
Explain how you figured it out:
- Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size What technique is being used? Alliteration and Rhyme
Explain how you figured it out:
- Veins collapse, / opening like the / fists of sleeping / Children. What technique is being used? Simile
Explain how you figured it out:
- The sunshine threw his hat away, What technique is being used? Personification
Explain how you figured it out:
- This test will be a piece of cake. What technique is being used? Idiom and Metaphor
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- As the bird chirps the / frog croaks What technique is being used? Onomatopoeia
- I could stare into your eyes as / a thousand years come and go What technique is being used? Hyperbole
Explain how you figured it out:
- Sing me no sad songs cause my hearts / been broken What technique is being used? Alliteration and Hyperbole
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- But he grew old / This knight so bold- What technique is being used? Rhyme
Explain how you figured it out:
- His new car cost him an arm and a leg. What technique is being used? Idiom and Metaphor
Explain how you figured it out:
- I laid me down upon a bank, / Where Love lay sleeping; What technique is being used? Alliteration and Personification
Explain how you figured it out:
- For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly. What technique is being used? Alliteration and Metaphor
