Duplicate of Poetry - Literary Devices - Quiz 1

Question 1

Douglas dug a deep hole during December.

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 2

The ocean is blue. The sky is blue. I am blue.

Accepted Answer

Antanaclasis, Epistrophe

Question 3

People are love, we give love, love is pain, you don’t know what happens next with love.

Accepted Answer

Epistrophe

Question 4

I love rats. Zac loves rats. My grandma loves rats.

Accepted Answer

Epistrophe

Question 5

As I pulled bark off the tree, as it was among my favourite hobbies, the neighbours dog let out a huge bark at me.

Accepted Answer

Anatanaclasis

Question 6

The rat sucked his feet. Kon asked to swim 5 feet down.

Accepted Answer

Antanaclasis

Question 7

I couldn’t kill an ant.

Accepted Answer

Hyperbole

Question 8

Why? Why all the war? Why all the death? Why the cold hearts? Why the blind eyes?

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 9

The Chromebook spoke to me.

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 10

The superhero zapped the monster. ZAP!

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 11

The cat is in heat. John asked to turn the heat up.

Accepted Answer

Anatanclasis

Question 12

I’m so hungry I could eat an elephant.

Accepted Answer

Hyperbole

Question 13

When I returned, he was gone. She was gone, They were all gone.

Accepted Answer

Epistrophe

Question 14

The mattress was harder than mining bedrock

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 15

The best in the neighbourhood. The best in the city. The best in the country and the best in the world.

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 16

I like air, I like water, I like food, I like sports.

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 17

Sick, silly, slippery snakes slither so silently through the secret, screw sand; no soul shall hear them.

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 18

Josh Addo-Carr stops the players like a car hits a wall

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 19

That was a screamer.

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 20

The mattress was harder than mining bedrock

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Questions 20