Poetry Techniques

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