Directions Identify which technique is used in the line from the choices below. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it on the space provided before
the number
Choices:
A. alliteration
B. rhyme
C. onomatopoeia
D. idiom
E simile
F. metaphor
G. hyperbole
H. personification
1. This falling spray of snowflakes is / a handful of dead
2. The moon is faithful, although blind 3. children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks
Februaries
4. Time is a green orchard. 5. At dusk there's a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons
6. They chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery Park to
the Bronx
7. A final word: before you start / The convulsions of your art,
8. That tree said / I don't like that white car under me, / or gasoline
9. Life is a bowl of cherries 10. All that I hear / is the slishity-slosh of the rain
