Literary Terms

By D. Dowdy

Choose whether the line from a poem is an example of alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, or simile.


1. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

   Metaphor

   Onomatopoeia

   Personification

   Simile

2. "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark innyard."

   Alliteration

   Metaphor

   Personification

   Simile

3. "But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near"

   Alliteration

   Metaphor

   Personification

   Simile

4. "See the red berries...Fallen like little footprints On the garden snow"

   Alliteration

   Metaphor

   Onomatopoeia

   Simile

5. "The sea is a hungry dog, Giant and gray."

   Metaphor

   Personification

   Simile

   Onomatopoeia

6. "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me"

   Alliteration

   Metaphor

   Personification

   Simile

7. "When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon the seas"

   Metaphor

   Personification

   Simile

   Onomatopoeia

8. "and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door."

   Metaphor

   Onomatopoeia

   Personification

   Simile

9. "Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter"

   Metaphor

   Onomatopoeia

   Personification

   Simile

10. "Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees."

   Metaphor

   Onomatopoeia

   Personification

   Simile