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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.
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
2. The moon is faithful, although blind
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
3. children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
4. Time is a green orchard.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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
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
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
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
9. Life is a bowl of cherries
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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
11. My sisters tears that sing upon my head
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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
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
14. Veins collapse, / opening like the / fists of sleeping /
Children.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
15. The sunshine threw his hat away,
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
16. This test will be a piece of cake.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
17. As the bird chirps the / frog croaks
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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
19. Sing me no sad songs cause my hearts / been broken
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
20. But he grew old / This knight so bold-
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
21. His new car cost him an arm and a leg.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
22. I laid me down upon a bank, / Where Love lay sleeping;
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
23. For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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
25. But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
26. That'll be the day when pigs fly.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Identifying Poetic DevicesDirections: 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? ___________________________________________________________
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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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? ___________________________________________________________
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
|
Explain how you figured it out:
|
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
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? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Idiom, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification
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Explain how you figured it out:
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