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- 1. Multiple Choice
A device where the speaker refers to something that the reader needs prior knowledge or experience with to understand. Usually, it is a common culture reference.
Allusion
Assonance
Alliteration
Hyperbole
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of personification?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
A device where inanimate objects are given human characteristics
Placing 2 things that directly oppose each other (often abstract concepts) near each other or directly side-by-side so the reader can compare them.
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
- 3. Multiple Choice
Placing 2 things that directly oppose each other (often abstract concepts) near each other or directly side-by-side so the reader can compare them.
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion
Juxtaposition
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of simile?
Placing 2 things that directly oppose each other (often abstract concepts) near each other or directly side-by-side so the reader can compare them.
A comparison between two unalike things that have something in common
A comparison using "like" or "as" between 2 unalike things that have something in common
A device where the author chooses nouns, adjectives, or verbs that paint a strong mental picture and often have layers of meaning.
- 5. Multiple Choice
A device where the author chooses nouns, adjectives, or verbs that paint a strong mental picture and often have layers of meaning.
Metaphor
Imagery
Personification
Onomatopoeia
- 6. Multiple Choice
The repetition of beginning consonant sound
Rhyme
Assonance
Alliteration
Imagery
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
Repetition of ending (of the word or stressed syllable) consonant sound
When a poet deliberately writes a sentence in a grammatical unusual way
A device where the author chooses nouns, adjectives, or verbs that paint a strong mental picture and often have layers of meaning.
Words that imitate the sound they are
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhen the author repeats somethingLine LengthRepetitionPoetic InversionRhyme Scheme
- 9. Multiple ChoiceA comparison between two unalike things that have something in commonjuxtapositionsimileconsonancemetaphor
- 10. Multiple Choice
An extreme exagerration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Assonance
- 11. Multiple Choice
Identify the type of figurative language being used below-
I have died everyday, waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
a thousand years
- 12. Multiple Choice
Identify the figurative language being used here.
How many times do I have to tell you
Even when you’re crying you’re beautiful too
The world is beating you down, I’m around through every move
-John Legend, "All of Me"
Personification
Repetition
Simile
Alliteration
- 13. Multiple Choice
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
-"Firework", Katy Perry
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
- 14. Multiple Choice
I feel glorious, glorious
Got a chance to start again
I was born for this, born for this
It's who I am, how could I forget?
-Macklemore, "Glorious"
Repetition
Imagery
Rhyme
Metaphor
- 15. Multiple Choice
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
Assonance
- 16. Multiple Choice
Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
-"Hey Diddle, Diddle" nursery rhyme
Alliteration
Symbolism
Metaphor
Personification
- 17. Multiple Choice
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
-"The Sound of Silence", Simon and Garfunkel
Hyperbole
Repetition
Simile
Onomatopoeia
- 18. Multiple Choice
And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing you were still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?
-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"
Alliteration
Metphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
- 19. Multiple Choice
"Your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me
Your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me"
-Switchfoot, "Your Love is a Song"
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
- 20. Multiple Choice
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.
-Michael Jackson, "Thriller"
Symbol
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
- 21. Multiple Choice
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men
It's raining men, Hallelujah
It's raining men, amen
-The Weather Girls, "It's Raining Men"
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Symbolism
- 22. Multiple Choice
“Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is hot ice, and wondrous strange snow!
How shall we find the concord of this discord?”
– Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene i
Metaphor
Assonance
Juxtaposition
Repetition
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