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Poetry Techniques

Authored by Ms. Smith

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Techniques
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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.4.10

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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