Poetic Devices Quiz Produit

What figure of speech or poetic device is the following:

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• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the purpose of a poetic device?

(Hint: More than one answer!)

• To evoke emotion/feeling

• To create rhythm and sound

• To make a text sound better

• To connect to a bigger picture/idea

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which of the following devices describe this phrase? (

Hint: More than one answer)

The Sun strolled across the sky.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

"I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar!"

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the following an example of: 'silent swarms of seething wasps'

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the name for a paragraph of poetry?

• Prose

• Verse

• Stanza

• Voice

What is it called when an inanimate object is given human characteristics, e.g. the sun smiled down on us...

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The trees danced in the wind

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the following an example of: 'He was a battering ram, smashing at the gates'

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4