Poetic

Devices Learning Check

Part 1 MATCHING. Draw a line between the poetic device and the best example of it.

1. simile The wind whispered in my ear.
2. metaphor It was knocking, knocking, knocking at my door.
3. personification His heart was a block of ice.
4. onomatopoeia The rain was as soft as falling feathers.
5. repetition A busy bee buzzed over the meadow.

Part 2 IDENTIFICATION. Identify what 2 poetic devices each example uses and write your
answers below in the spaces provided.

1. Cathy is as cute as a cuddly kitten.



2. The engine rumbled and purred as the driver waiter for the race flag.



3. We walked and we talked. We talked and we walked.



4. He was a shining beacon in the long, dark, starless night.



5. The deep sea weeps sorrowfully.



Part 3 RHYME SCHEME. Identify the rhyme scheme in the following two poems using A, B to
label the end of each line.

Winter Moon by Langston Hughes

How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!
How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight!

An excerpt from Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.