Basic Poetry and Literary Elements

Which of the following is NOT a simile.

• "Your eyes are as bright as stars"
• "Life is like a box of chocolates"
• "You are my sunshine"
• "As big as an elephant"

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Select the best example of alliteration.

• "The strange and weird noise"
• "A hot cup of a coffee in a proper copper coffee pot"
• "How now brown cow"
• "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers"

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

Which of the following is the best example for assonance?

• "How now brown cow"
• "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain"

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until ‘justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream’” (King 3).

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” (King 2).

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born” (Yousafzai 2).

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Simile

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.6.5A

adding human characteristics to non-living objects
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"

• hyperbole
• symbolism
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Bat and cat are at the track is an example of...

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• assonance
• similes

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
The author most likely uses repetition at the end of this poem to highlight...

• That he doesn't want to travel any farther.
• That he doesn't know where he's headed. 
• How long the journey is ahead of him.
• How tired he is. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Like a hawk I soar above
balconies and bluffs.
A bewildering blur
Which poetic device did the author use in the last 2 lines of this poem?

• Alliteration
• Personification

• Similie
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4