Figurative Language and Sound Devices

What figurative language device is used in the lines from Analysis of Baseball by May Swenson?

"about 40,000/ fans exploded" (lines 47-48)

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What sound device is used in the following line from There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale?

"And swallows circling with their shimmering sound" (line 2)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

What sound devices are used in the following lines from Analysis of Baseball by May Swenson?

"air, or thuds/ground (dud)" (lines 13-14)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

What sound devices are used in the lines from The Analysis of Baseball by May Swenson?

"Ball hits/ bat, or it/ hits mitt." (lines 5-7)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

What figurative language device is used in the lines from There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale?

"And spring herself, when she woke at dawn,/ Would scarcely know that we were gone." (lines 11-12)

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What figurative language device is used in the following quote from "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?

"At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone" (para. 7).

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What figurative language device is used in the lines from Analysis of Baseball by May Swenson?

"Ball/ flirts, bat's/ late, don't/ keep the date" (22-25)

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What figurative language devices are used in the following quote from "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?

"The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big small, servicing, attending, in choirs" (para. 13).

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

How does the combination of sound devices used in Analysis of Baseball by May Swenson impact the poem?

• The use of alliteration, assonance, and consonance creates rhythm that mimics the sometimes fast, sometimes slow rhythm of the game of baseball.

• The use of alliteration, assonance, and consonance creates tongue-twister.

• The use of alliteration, assonance, and consonance creates a melancholy tone in the poem.

• The use of alliteration, consonance and assonance creates a consistently slow, methodical rhythm.