What Poetry Tool Am I?

What Poetry Tool Am I? Select the correct answer for each example.

1.) It’s marvelous mechanical machinery. • A. personification • B. simile • C. trite • D. alliteration

2.) I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. • A. hyperbole • B. simile • C. trite • D. alliteration

3.) What if Dove soap were called Pigeon soap? • A. personification • B. simile • C. connotation • D. alliteration

4.) It says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the label, label, label. • A. personification • B. simile • C. repetition • D. alliteration

5.) He is as cold as the toilet seat. • A. personification • B. simile • C. trite • D. alliteration

6.) This relationship is like a football game, and he’s keeping score. • A. personification • B. simile • C. metaphor • D. alliteration

7.) In trying to stop, the car made a loud screech. • A. personification • B. simile • C. trite • D. onomatopoeia

8.) War rearranged my brain and settled in it to live forever. • A. personification • B. simile • C. trite • D. alliteration

9.) You are grounded until you’re thirty. • A. trite • B. simile • C. trite • D. alliteration

10.) I couldn’t live without you. • A. personification • B. understatement • C. trite • D. alliteration

Answers

1.) It’s marvelous mechanical machinery. • D. alliteration

2.) I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. • A. hyperbole

3.) What if Dove soap were called Pigeon soap? • C. connotation

4.) It says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the label, label, label. • C. repetition

5.) He is as cold as the toilet seat. • B. simile

6.) This relationship is like a football game, and he’s keeping score. • C. metaphor

7.) In trying to stop, the car made a loud screech. • D. onomatopoeia

8.) War rearranged my brain and settled in it to live forever. • A. personification

9.) You are grounded until you’re thirty. • A. trite

10.) I couldn’t live without you. • B. understatement

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