ENG1D1 - Poetic Devices Examples

Question 1

"Medusa could not have scared me more!" is what poetic device?

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Allusion

Question 2

"Shoe is to foot as tire is to wheel" is what poetic device?

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Analogy

Question 3

"The cat’s eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness" is what poetic device?

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Metaphor

Question 4

"I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me" is what literary device?

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Pun

Question 5

"Act naturally" is what poetic device?

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Oxymoron

Question 6

"April is the cruellest month, breeding /Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire" is what poetic device?

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Juxtaposition

Question 7

"All’s fair in love and war" is what poetic device?

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Juxtaposition

Question 8

"Apple 🡪 1) Apple, a fruit; 2) Apple representing Education" is what poetic device?

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Symbol

Question 9

"She floated in like a cloud" is what poetic device?

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Simile

Question 10

"The sweet vapour of the fog hug in the air like perfume mist" is what poetic device

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Imagery

Question 11

"It’s twenty years until tomorrow" is what poetic device?

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Hyperbole

Question 12

"An English teacher makes a spelling mistake" is what poetic device?

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Irony

Question 13

"If you don’t want to lose him, let him go" is what poetic device?

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Paradox

Question 14

"The bee buzzed" is what poetic device?

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Onomatopoeia

Question 15

"The daffodils nodded their yellow heads" is what poetic device?

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Personification

Question 16

"The burning wood crackled and hissed"

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Onomatopoeia

Question 17

"Truth is honey, which is bitter" is what poetic device?

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Paradox

Question 18

"He seems to gleam, beaming sunshine with eyes unseen" is what poetic device?

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Assonance

Question 19

"Cold fire" is what poetic device?

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Oxymoron

Question 20

"She slept sweetly as she snuggled"" is what literary device?

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Alliteration

Question 21

"Threatening throngs" is what poetic device?

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Alliteration

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