Poetic Devices

Poetry Terms Review

Multiple Choice

Which line begins with "And"?

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

Multiple Choice

Which line in this stanza is enjambed?

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

Enjambment occurs when lines of poetry that continue (“spill over”) to the next.

Multiple Choice

What type of rhyme is used below?

Yeah, you, if it's not you, it's not anyone

Lookin' back on my life, you're the only good I've ever done

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

End rhyme is defined as “when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

Multiple Choice

What type of rhyme is used below?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I

Pondered, weak and weary...

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

Internal rhyme occurs when words within lines rhymes appear within lines.

Multiple Choice

A style of poetry that does not rhyme is called

• quatrain

• free verse

• exact rhyme

• metaphor

Poetic Devices

Poetic devices are used to make poetry better. It makes the writing clearer and more descriptive

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Internal Rhyme

• None listed

Alliteration happens when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence. The sound is a consonant and the words don't have to be right next to one another.

Multiple Choice

What is the simile in passage?

The whiskey on your breath

Could make a small boy dizzy;

But I hung on like death:

Such waltzing was not easy.

• on your breath

• But I hung like death

• Could make a small boy dizzy

• such waltzing was not easy

A simile is a type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words like or as.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

She stood in the front of the altar shaking like a freshly caught trout.

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• exact rhyme

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

You are my sunshine.

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• exact rhyme

Multiple Choice

Descriptive language that paints a picture for the reader is called

• personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Poets use ​imagery ​to create vivid impressions, or ​images​. Images are developed using s​ensory language​, which relates to the senses of sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing, and movement. 

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

A mountain of baby carrots,

a turkey the size of a cow.

a river full of gravy

and gallons full of ice cream.

• quatrain

• alliteration

• exact rhyme

• hyperbole

Hyperbole, from a Greek word meaning “excess,” is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated in the image?

• hyperbole

• understatement

An understatement is a statement that downplays the intensity of something.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

Buzz, clang, zip, pow

• onomatopoeia

• synecdoche

• imagery

• free verse

Onomatopoeia is when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken.

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

The rock stubbornly refused to move.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Personification is attributing human traits or actions to non-human things

Multiple Choice

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

To the swinging and the ringing

of the bells, bells, bells-

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bells-

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

• couplet

• rhyme scheme

• simile

• repetition

Multiple Choice

Line two contains two examples of __________.

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

• simile

• metaphor