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

Select the correct answer for each example.

What Poetry Tool Am I?

1.) It’s marvelous mechanical machinery.

A. personificationB. simileC. triteD. alliteration

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

A. hyperboleB. simileC. triteD. alliteration

3.) What if Dove soap were called Pigeon soap?

A. personificationB. simileC. connotationD. alliteration

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

A. personificationB. simileC. repetitionD. alliteration

5.) He is as cold as the toilet seat.

A. personificationB. simileC. triteD. alliteration

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

A. personificationB. simileC. metaphorD. alliteration

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

A. personificationB. simileC. triteD. onomatopoeia

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

A. personificationB. simileC. triteD. alliteration

9.) You are grounded until you’re thirty.

A. triteB. simileC. triteD. alliteration

10.) I couldn’t live without you.

A. personificationB. understatementC. triteD. 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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