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POETIC DEVICES
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Farthings: Richard II Farthing
Name:
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Identifying Poetic Devices
Directions: Write
which technique is being used on the line. There may be more
than one correct answer; you may write more than one answer. Then,
explain how you know your answer. Slashes represent line
breaks.
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Answers:
alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, idiom,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification.
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Example 1. This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful
of dead Februaries
What technique is being used? _____
Personification and
Alliteration____________
________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
Februaries
can't die like humans can; therefore it is an example of
personification. Also, many words begin with the letter "F"
or "S", so it also has alliteration.
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2. The moon is faithful, although blind
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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3. children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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4. Time is a green orchard.
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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5. At dusk there's a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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6. They chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from
Battery Park to the Bronx
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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7.
A final word: before you start /
The convulsions of your art,
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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8. That tree said / I don't like that white car under me, / or its
gasoline smell
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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9. Life is a bowl of cherries
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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10. All that I hear / Is the slishity-slosh of the rain.
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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11. My sisters tears that sing upon my head
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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12. I lost my freedom for free room and board / like a monkey in a
zoo
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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13. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I'm not cute or
built to suit a fashion model's size
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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14. Veins collapse, / opening like the / fists of sleeping /
Children.
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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15. The sunshine threw his hat away,
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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16. This test will be a piece of cake.
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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17. As the bird chirps the / frog croaks
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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18. I could stare into your eyes as / a thousand years come
and go
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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19. Sing me no sad songs cause my hearts / been broken
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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20. But he grew old / This knight so bold-
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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21. His new car cost him an arm and a leg.
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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22. I laid me down upon a bank, / Where Love lay sleeping;
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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23. For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot
fly.
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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24. The pans clattered and banged / the tapping of the wooden
spoon / tap, tap, tap
What technique is being used?
___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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25. But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy.
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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26. That'll be the day when pigs fly.
What technique is being used?
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Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile,
Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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