Stars are bright, stars they shine, stars alone, stars are fine, but don’t you know they drift at night.

Onomatopoeia, Anaphora, Personification

Poetry - Literary Devices - Full bank of questions

This quiz uses different poetic sentences created by students, in order to test participants' abilities to identify different literary techniques, such as: Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Symbolism, Repetition, Allusion, etc...

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Questions 100

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1
People die. Animals die. I roll the die.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
2
The Chromebook spoke to me.
Personification
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Alliteration
3
Sick, silly, slippery snakes slither so silently through the secret, screw sand; no soul shall hear them.
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
Onomatopoeia
4
The book sat there waiting to find out its next chapter.
Personification
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Alliteration
5
Why? Why all the war? Why all the death? Why the cold hearts? Why the blind eyes?
Allusion
Anaphora
Alliteration
Symbolism
6
When I returned, he was gone. She was gone, They were all gone.
Epistrophe
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
7
This room is as quiet as the moon.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
8
When he was hungry, he was eating. When he was in school, he was eating, Even when he was sleeping he was eating
Symbolism
Anaphora
Alliteration
Epistrophe
9
I drank water in the fountain, I drank water on a mountain
Anaphora
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Alliteration
10
I broke my pencil, but now it feels pointless.
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
11
The sun smiled brightly.
Allusion
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Personification
12
The pencil screams inside the pencil sharpener leaving the scraps of lead and shavings there on the floor.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Personification
Allusion
13
Her dog was worth more than the infinity stones.
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
14
I wave at the plane as it flies over waves, plain white in the air.
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Antanaclasis
15
The necklace was worth more than a wand of Auradon
Symbolism
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Allusion
16
The best in the neighbourhood. The best in the city. The best in the country and the best in the world.
Anaphora
Alliteration
Allusion
Antanaclasis
17
This cat is dumber than a rock.
Hyperbole
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
18
As she laid down, she felt the buttons start to stitch into her eyes.
Epistrophe
Allusion
Personification
Onomatopoeia
19
Curious creative cat.
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
20
The pages of the book danced along to the wind.
Personification
Anaphora
Symbolism
Allusion
21
The cat is in heat. John asked to turn the heat up.
Allusion
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Anatanclasis
22
I am so cold I could freeze to death.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Epistrophe
23
The towering trees stood tall, whispering and chattering in the dark wind.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Personification
Antanaclasis
24
I felt it. I wanted it. I had it.
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
25
Douglas dug a deep hole during December.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Alliteration
Symbolism
26
I was so hungry, I would’ve eaten my own hand.
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
27
I don’t hate you, I HATE you.
Personification
Alussion
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
28
I jumped into my first car just to honk it. It went “Beep, Beep, Beep”.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Antanaclasis
29
The day went forever it was like the sun was frozen in place.
Allusion
Personification
Anaphora
Hyperbole
30
As I ride the waves of the world, time flies by. As I follow the roads of people, time flies by, but all times must end.
Symbolism
Personification
Epistrophe
Antanacalsis
31
The cold swam around the room, drowning everything in frost
Personification
Anaphora
Symbolism
Alliteration
32
Boris became big because of a billion beetroots.
Epistrophe
Personification
Symbolism
Alliteration
33
The pencil ran across the paper
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Personification
Epistrophe
34
The man was as cruel as Voldemort.
Allusion
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Onomatopoeia
35
Shiny snakes slithering across the glistening soft sand.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
36
The desk tilted like the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Symbolism
Allusion
37
The mattress was harder than mining bedrock
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
38
The tranquility is like the Isles of the Blest.
Allusion
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
39
The keyboard went click clack.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Allusion
Alliteration
40
I could sleep forever.
Hyperbole
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
41
Pork roll, sausage roll, Rick Roll. I will will.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Epistrophe
Antanaclais
42
Stars are bright, stars they shine, stars alone, stars are fine, but don’t you know they drift at night.
Onomatopoeia
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Personification
43
The chair was pleading for me to get off.
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
44
My pencil pounced across my page.
Symbolism
Personification
Allusion
Antanaclasis
45
I stood away, I felt away, but when I opened up I was closer today.
Anaphora
Personification
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
46
This long list of chores will take forever to complete!
Symbolism
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Allusion
47
The grass danced in the wind together in harmony.
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Personification
Onomatopoeia
48
The ocean is blue. The sky is blue. I am blue.
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Epistrophe
49
Bob the builder built big buildings brick by brick.
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
50
The dog issued a bark at the tree and a huge chunk of bark knocked the dog out.
Alliteration
Personification
Antanaclasis
Allusion
51
Jimmy jumped in a building. Bang! He stole the queen’s jewels and a painting.
Epistrophe
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
52
As I pulled bark off the tree, as it was among my favourite hobbies, the neighbours dog let out a huge bark at me.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Anatanaclasis
53
Waves weave their way to the waterfront warehouse
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
54
I could grow a tree. I could draw a house, but I could not hurt a fly.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Personification
Alliteration
55
He got hit with a bat, he was looking at a baby bat
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
56
I like air, I like water, I like food, I like sports.
Anaphora
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
57
The world ends when I cut bread.
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Alliteration
58
Boom clash bang went the drum, dun dun da.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Personification
59
She looked at the wall seeing the photo, she smiled. She looked at the wall seeing the photo, she cried.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
60
He was as stirring as J. Lang giving a speech.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Alliteration
61
The gun went pew-pew
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
62
I want to sleep, he wants to sleep, we want to sleep!
Epistrophe
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Symbolism
63
Life is like a plum. The deeper you go in, the juicier it gets.
Symbolism
Personification
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
64
The mattress was harder than mining bedrock
Allusion
Alliteration
Personification
Symbolism
65
I couldn’t kill an ant.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Epistrophe
66
My console, it was ready and full of energy.
Anaphora
Allusion
Epistrophe
Personification
67
The man started to bow, as he picked up his bow.
Epistrope
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Anaphora
68
The rat sucked his feet. Kon asked to swim 5 feet down.
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
69
I don’t like you. I don’t like that.
Personification
Anaphora
Allusion
Symbolism
70
I’m so hungry I could eat an elephant.
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
Allusion
Symbolism
71
The superhero zapped the monster. ZAP!
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
72
My phone was dying to be charged and any source of internet I had was barely living.
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Allusion
73
It was like a thorn to my ears.
Personification
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
74
The shadows crawled across the alleyway, stretching themselves, smothering everything they could.
Epistrophe
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
75
I wish to fly upon a helicopter. I wish to travel 10,000 days. I wish to have an interesting life.
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Anaphora
76
I’m cold. I’m sad, I’m depressed. Lost in a jungle of shadows, locked away forever. Trapped.
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
77
My life is at a red light.
Antanaclasis
Symbolism
Anaphora
Personification
78
My hand is about to fall off from writing.
Anaphora
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
79
This hot, happy hippo is going to keep me in awe for days.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Antanclasis
Alliteration
80
Doing the dishes is going to take up all my years left to live.
Allusion
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
81
Is there a Mr Cricket in your PE class.
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
Anaphora
Allusion
82
I hate bugs, I hate spiders, I hate mosquitoes.
Alliteration
Allusion
Anaphora
Epistrophe
83
That bin smells so bad not even the flies like it.
Hyperbole
Personification
Symbolism
Alliteration
84
As the balloon gets higher, the knowledge it carries gets bigger.
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Allusion
Personification
85
The lamp flicker’s. Flick Flick, falling underneath other’s
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Allusion
Symbolism
86
Josh Addo-Carr stops the players like a car hits a wall
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Allusion
87
He was as old as Yoda.
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Allusion
Symbolism
88
I love rats. Zac loves rats. My grandma loves rats.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
89
It was a snowy day and I saw a car skrr skrr across the snow.
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
90
The bat punched the ball with a great ‘crack’ as it flew into the distance.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Allusion
91
People are love, we give love, love is pain, you don’t know what happens next with love.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
Personification
92
Cam likes camping in the cove, he is a Capricorn
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
93
My bag lazily slept on the floor.
Alliteration
Personification
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
94
This food is amazing, it tastes amazing, it looks amazing, oh wait I am the food
Personification
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Symbolism
95
The donkey went “Eeorr” then ate an innocent snail passing by.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
Allusion
96
The pig went oink! Then splat in mud.
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
97
The wind wooshed like a raging waterfall.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
98
This homework is going to take decades.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Epistrophe
99
The whiteboard was horrified, pale white, unmoving.
Personification
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
100
That was a screamer.
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Anaphora

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Questions 100

Answers

1
People die. Animals die. I roll the die.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
2
The Chromebook spoke to me.
Personification
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Alliteration
3
Sick, silly, slippery snakes slither so silently through the secret, screw sand; no soul shall hear them.
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
Onomatopoeia
4
The book sat there waiting to find out its next chapter.
Personification
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Alliteration
5
Why? Why all the war? Why all the death? Why the cold hearts? Why the blind eyes?
Allusion
Anaphora
Alliteration
Symbolism
6
When I returned, he was gone. She was gone, They were all gone.
Epistrophe
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
7
This room is as quiet as the moon.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
8
When he was hungry, he was eating. When he was in school, he was eating, Even when he was sleeping he was eating
Symbolism
Anaphora
Alliteration
Epistrophe
9
I drank water in the fountain, I drank water on a mountain
Anaphora
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Alliteration
10
I broke my pencil, but now it feels pointless.
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
11
The sun smiled brightly.
Allusion
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Personification
12
The pencil screams inside the pencil sharpener leaving the scraps of lead and shavings there on the floor.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Personification
Allusion
13
Her dog was worth more than the infinity stones.
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
14
I wave at the plane as it flies over waves, plain white in the air.
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Antanaclasis
15
The necklace was worth more than a wand of Auradon
Symbolism
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Allusion
16
The best in the neighbourhood. The best in the city. The best in the country and the best in the world.
Anaphora
Alliteration
Allusion
Antanaclasis
17
This cat is dumber than a rock.
Hyperbole
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
18
As she laid down, she felt the buttons start to stitch into her eyes.
Epistrophe
Allusion
Personification
Onomatopoeia
19
Curious creative cat.
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
20
The pages of the book danced along to the wind.
Personification
Anaphora
Symbolism
Allusion
21
The cat is in heat. John asked to turn the heat up.
Allusion
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Anatanclasis
22
I am so cold I could freeze to death.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Epistrophe
23
The towering trees stood tall, whispering and chattering in the dark wind.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Personification
Antanaclasis
24
I felt it. I wanted it. I had it.
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
25
Douglas dug a deep hole during December.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Alliteration
Symbolism
26
I was so hungry, I would’ve eaten my own hand.
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
27
I don’t hate you, I HATE you.
Personification
Alussion
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
28
I jumped into my first car just to honk it. It went “Beep, Beep, Beep”.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Antanaclasis
29
The day went forever it was like the sun was frozen in place.
Allusion
Personification
Anaphora
Hyperbole
30
As I ride the waves of the world, time flies by. As I follow the roads of people, time flies by, but all times must end.
Symbolism
Personification
Epistrophe
Antanacalsis
31
The cold swam around the room, drowning everything in frost
Personification
Anaphora
Symbolism
Alliteration
32
Boris became big because of a billion beetroots.
Epistrophe
Personification
Symbolism
Alliteration
33
The pencil ran across the paper
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Personification
Epistrophe
34
The man was as cruel as Voldemort.
Allusion
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Onomatopoeia
35
Shiny snakes slithering across the glistening soft sand.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
36
The desk tilted like the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Symbolism
Allusion
37
The mattress was harder than mining bedrock
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Personification
Symbolism
38
The tranquility is like the Isles of the Blest.
Allusion
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
39
The keyboard went click clack.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Allusion
Alliteration
40
I could sleep forever.
Hyperbole
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
41
Pork roll, sausage roll, Rick Roll. I will will.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Epistrophe
Antanaclais
42
Stars are bright, stars they shine, stars alone, stars are fine, but don’t you know they drift at night.
Onomatopoeia
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Personification
43
The chair was pleading for me to get off.
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
44
My pencil pounced across my page.
Symbolism
Personification
Allusion
Antanaclasis
45
I stood away, I felt away, but when I opened up I was closer today.
Anaphora
Personification
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
46
This long list of chores will take forever to complete!
Symbolism
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Allusion
47
The grass danced in the wind together in harmony.
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Personification
Onomatopoeia
48
The ocean is blue. The sky is blue. I am blue.
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Epistrophe
49
Bob the builder built big buildings brick by brick.
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
50
The dog issued a bark at the tree and a huge chunk of bark knocked the dog out.
Alliteration
Personification
Antanaclasis
Allusion
51
Jimmy jumped in a building. Bang! He stole the queen’s jewels and a painting.
Epistrophe
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
52
As I pulled bark off the tree, as it was among my favourite hobbies, the neighbours dog let out a huge bark at me.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Anatanaclasis
53
Waves weave their way to the waterfront warehouse
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
54
I could grow a tree. I could draw a house, but I could not hurt a fly.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Personification
Alliteration
55
He got hit with a bat, he was looking at a baby bat
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
56
I like air, I like water, I like food, I like sports.
Anaphora
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
57
The world ends when I cut bread.
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Alliteration
58
Boom clash bang went the drum, dun dun da.
Onomatopoeia
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Personification
59
She looked at the wall seeing the photo, she smiled. She looked at the wall seeing the photo, she cried.
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
60
He was as stirring as J. Lang giving a speech.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Alliteration
61
The gun went pew-pew
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
62
I want to sleep, he wants to sleep, we want to sleep!
Epistrophe
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Symbolism
63
Life is like a plum. The deeper you go in, the juicier it gets.
Symbolism
Personification
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
64
The mattress was harder than mining bedrock
Allusion
Alliteration
Personification
Symbolism
65
I couldn’t kill an ant.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Epistrophe
66
My console, it was ready and full of energy.
Anaphora
Allusion
Epistrophe
Personification
67
The man started to bow, as he picked up his bow.
Epistrope
Allusion
Antanaclasis
Anaphora
68
The rat sucked his feet. Kon asked to swim 5 feet down.
Epistrophe
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
69
I don’t like you. I don’t like that.
Personification
Anaphora
Allusion
Symbolism
70
I’m so hungry I could eat an elephant.
Antanaclasis
Hyperbole
Allusion
Symbolism
71
The superhero zapped the monster. ZAP!
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
72
My phone was dying to be charged and any source of internet I had was barely living.
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Allusion
73
It was like a thorn to my ears.
Personification
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
74
The shadows crawled across the alleyway, stretching themselves, smothering everything they could.
Epistrophe
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
75
I wish to fly upon a helicopter. I wish to travel 10,000 days. I wish to have an interesting life.
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Anaphora
76
I’m cold. I’m sad, I’m depressed. Lost in a jungle of shadows, locked away forever. Trapped.
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
77
My life is at a red light.
Antanaclasis
Symbolism
Anaphora
Personification
78
My hand is about to fall off from writing.
Anaphora
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
79
This hot, happy hippo is going to keep me in awe for days.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Antanclasis
Alliteration
80
Doing the dishes is going to take up all my years left to live.
Allusion
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
81
Is there a Mr Cricket in your PE class.
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
Anaphora
Allusion
82
I hate bugs, I hate spiders, I hate mosquitoes.
Alliteration
Allusion
Anaphora
Epistrophe
83
That bin smells so bad not even the flies like it.
Hyperbole
Personification
Symbolism
Alliteration
84
As the balloon gets higher, the knowledge it carries gets bigger.
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Allusion
Personification
85
The lamp flicker’s. Flick Flick, falling underneath other’s
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Allusion
Symbolism
86
Josh Addo-Carr stops the players like a car hits a wall
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Allusion
87
He was as old as Yoda.
Epistrophe
Alliteration
Allusion
Symbolism
88
I love rats. Zac loves rats. My grandma loves rats.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Epistrophe
89
It was a snowy day and I saw a car skrr skrr across the snow.
Antanaclasis
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
90
The bat punched the ball with a great ‘crack’ as it flew into the distance.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Allusion
91
People are love, we give love, love is pain, you don’t know what happens next with love.
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
Personification
92
Cam likes camping in the cove, he is a Capricorn
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
93
My bag lazily slept on the floor.
Alliteration
Personification
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
94
This food is amazing, it tastes amazing, it looks amazing, oh wait I am the food
Personification
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Symbolism
95
The donkey went “Eeorr” then ate an innocent snail passing by.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Antanaclasis
Allusion
96
The pig went oink! Then splat in mud.
Symbolism
Antanaclasis
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
97
The wind wooshed like a raging waterfall.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
98
This homework is going to take decades.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Epistrophe
99
The whiteboard was horrified, pale white, unmoving.
Personification
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
100
That was a screamer.
Epistrophe
Antanaclasis
Allusion
Anaphora