Poetic Devices Quiz

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

beginning of words starting with the same letter/sound.
ex: cute cats climbed the crooked cable

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

a reference to a person, place, and event to another work or passage

Question 3

Couplet

Answer 3

: two lines that rhyme.
ex: I die, you fly

Question 4

Hyperbole

Answer 4

exaggeration.
ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

: comparing 2 unlike things without using “as, like or than”
Ex: he is a fish when swimming

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

word used to demonstrate a sound.
ex: buzz, zap, crunch, bang

Question 7

Oxymoron

Answer 7

words together that are the opposite
ex: bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, plastic glass

Question 8

Paradox

Answer 8

something containing truth

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

: something given a human trait.
ex: the kettle whistled on the stove

Question 10

Simile

Answer 10

comparing 2 unlike things using “as, like or than”
ex: he is as fast as a cheetah