Match the poetry elements with the correct example.
Column A
Column B
1.
simile
a. The shopping cost me a million dollars.
2
metaphor
3.
personification
b. gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. 1
talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise
steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a
high key and with violent gesticulations, but the noise
steadily increased, Why WOULD they not be gone?
c. "Hear the mellow wedding bells"
4
allusion
5.
onomatopoeia
6.
d. Her house is as clean as a whistle.
hyperbole
7.
e. The rise in poverty will unlock Pandora's box of crimes.
assonance
f. I dropped my lucky locket in the thick mud.
8.
consonance
9.
alliteration
8. The big, bad bear scared all the baby bunnies by the
bushes.
10.
repetition
h. Truth is honey, which is bitter,
paradox
1. The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its