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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of personification?
"You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I’ll rise."
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are."
"The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees."
"Life is a highway."
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
"The day was as hot as the sun."
"Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes."
"The stars winked in the night sky."
"His opponent was looking for his Achilles’ heel to beat him."
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me."
"The stars winked in the night sky."
"Our life is like a thorny rose
Not perfect, but always beautiful."
"I am the hope and the dream of the slave."
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of an allusion?
"I rise, I rise, I rise."
"It was such an obvious lie, I was surprised his nose didn’t start growing."
"She had a photographic memory but never developed it."
- 5. Multiple Choice
“In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.”
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopeia
Simile
- 6. Multiple Choice
“Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags."
Irony
Onomatopeia
Simile
Metaphor
- 7. Multiple Choice
“You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may kill me with your hatefulness”
Imagery
Pun
Hyperbole
Allusion
- 8. Multiple Choice
“I rise, I rise, I rise.”
Denotation
Cacophony
Simile
Refrain
- 9. Multiple Choice
What ACTUALLY happens in the poem without looking for the deeper meaning
Literal meaning
Figurative meaning
- 10. Multiple Choice
The theme or symbolic, deeper meaning of a poem.
Literal meaning
Figurative meaning
- 11. Multiple Choice
"If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/ come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs"
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Irony
- 12. Multiple Choice
“Our life is like a thorny rose
Not perfect, but always beautiful.”
Simile
Euphony
Cacophony
Rhyme
- 13. Multiple Choice
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Pun
Meter
- 14. Multiple Choice
“Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.”
Metaphor
Rhyme
Euphony
Cacophony
- 15. Multiple Choice
The dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Connotation
- 16. Multiple Choice
The layers of meaning that a word has, or the emotional associations or implications of a word.
Denotation
Connotation
- 17. Multiple Choice
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
Assonance
Consonance
Metaphor
Symbolism
- 18. Multiple Choice
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Consonance
- 19. Multiple Choice
Repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance
Consonance
- 20. Multiple Choice
“I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling, I bear in the tide.”
Simile
Metaphor
Pun
Irony
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