Poetic Devices

Stella loves the moon, with its untroubled smile.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

They drifted past my domain like logs on a lazy river.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Stella is a mountain. Next to her I am a rock, and Bob is a grain of sand.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Merry chicken soup with

Merry chicken soup with

Merry chicken soup with rice.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

In April I will go away

To far off Spain or old Bombay

• Simile

• End rhyme

• Personification

If the world was crazy, you know what I'd eat?

A big slice of soup and a whole quart of meat

• Personification

• Metaphor

• End rhyme

Which poetic device is shown in red?

Then suddenly, the jaws went SNAP

And the dentist was gone, right off the map

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Which poetic device is underlined in red? Pick the best answer.

And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!

Please put down your pliers and let me go."

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Personification

She draws things that aren’t real: clouds that smile and cars that swim.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

The world is so big and we’re all so small

sometimes it feels like we can’t do anything at all

• End rhyme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor