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Figurative Language Quiz

The document appears to be a poetry quiz asking students to identify different types of figurative language in poetic examples. It provides 10 examples of poetry with blank lines for students to write the letter of the poetic device being used. The poetic devices included are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, rhyme, repetition, alliteration and onomatopoeia.

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Figurative Language Quiz

The document appears to be a poetry quiz asking students to identify different types of figurative language in poetic examples. It provides 10 examples of poetry with blank lines for students to write the letter of the poetic device being used. The poetic devices included are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, rhyme, repetition, alliteration and onomatopoeia.

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Poetry Quiz
Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device being used.
Write the letter of your answer on the line to the right.
1. The streets were strange and still, / Through the doors of the open churches
The organs were moaning shrill.
a. simile

b. metaphor

c. hyperbole

d. personification

2. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
a. enjambment

b. metaphor

c. simile

b. alliteration

_________
c. metaphor

d. simile

4. Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.
a. simile

b. hyperbole

c. onomatopoeia

b. personification

c. repetition

b. simile

c. personification

b. metaphor

c. understatement

b. metaphor

c. personification

c. hyperbole

_________
d. simile

10. Women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
a. onomatopoeia b. hyperbole

c. personification

_________

d. onomatopoeia

9. And I will return, my love, / even if it were a million miles.


a. personification b. onomatopoeia

_________

d. hyperbole

8. He would contemplate the distance / With a look of pensive meaning,


As of ducks that die in ill tempests.
a. simile

_________

d. hyperbole

7. Vague pageants woven on a web of dream!


And we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream / Of modern life
a. simile

_________

d. metaphor

6. Chant in a wail / that never halts, / pace a circle and pay tribute / with a song.
a. rhyme

_________

d. alliteration

5. He answered her he knew not what: / Like shaft from bow at random shot,
a. simile

_________

d. onomatopoeia

3. She soothed her secret sorrow.


a. hyperbole

_________

_________
d. alliteration

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