Poetic Techniques

Question 1

“The bees buzzed busily around the bushes.”

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

“The wind whistled quietly among the trees.”

Answer 2

Personification

Question 3

“The guns rattled and the bombs rocked the earth with a boom.”

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia

Question 4

“There was a mountain of ice-cream on her plate.”

Answer 4

Metaphor

Question 5

“The boy was like a tank on the football pitch.”

Answer 5

Simile

Question 6

“The more that you read
The more things you will know
The more you learn
The more places you’ll go!”

Answer 6

Rhyme

Question 7

“I will read on a boat
I will read on a goat.

I will read on a train
I read in the rain.”

Answer 7

Rhyming couplets

Question 8

“Jumping jolly jelly beans.”

Answer 8

Alliteration

Question 9

“Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Answer 9

Alliteration

Question 10

“The stars winked at me in the night”

Answer 10

Personification

Question 11

“The flowers swayed a slow waltz in the wind.”

Answer 11

Personification

Question 12

“The wheel barrow groaned and sighed under the weight of the logs.”

Answer 12

Personification

Question 13

“Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.”

Answer 13

Simile

Question 14

“He had teeth like daggers and a smile like death.”

Answer 14

Simile

Question 15

“He was a walking dictionary.”

Answer 15

Metaphor

Question 16

“She’s a sunbeam, brightening our days.”

Answer 16

Metaphor

Question 17

“Life is a journey.”

Answer 17

Metaphor

Question 18

Repeating vowel sounds in a sentence is called ______________.

Answer 18

Assonance

Question 19

The rain in spain falls mainly in the plains.

Answer 19

Assonance

Question 20

How now brown cow?

Answer 20

Assonance

Question 21

A word that mimics the sound it makes.

Answer 21

Onomatopoeia

Question 22

The car door banged. Slam!

Answer 22

Onomatopoeia

Question 23

Tick tock little clock

Answer 23

Onomatopoeia

Question 24

Comparing two things by saying one thing is another. It cannot literally be true.

Answer 24

Metaphor

Question 25

A comparison that uses the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Answer 25

Simile

Question 26

Repeating consonant sounds at the start of two or more words in a row. (typically this means words that start with the same letter)

Answer 26

Alliteration

Question 27

Giving human like qualities to non living things.

Answer 27

Personification

Question 28

The pattern and flow of words caused by the syllables.

Answer 28

Rhythm