Poetry Techniques
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6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
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
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
sibilance
alliteration
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
imagery
rhyme
irony
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
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
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
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
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
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
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RL.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Select the poetry technique at use in these lines:
He was as blind as a bat without his glasses.
sibilance
simile
allusion
personification
imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
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