Elements of Poetry Review

Elements of Poetry Review

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry uses fixed, traditional patterns of rhyming, meter, line length, or stanza structure?

• formal

• free

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry uses poetic language but no fixed pattern?

• formal

• free

Multiple Choice

Which poetic form is used in The Pause by Theodore Roethke?

• formal

• free

Multiple Choice

What is the sound device used to repeat vowel or consonant sounds at the ends of words?

• rhythm

• rhyme

• consonance

• assonance

True Rhyme

"Day" and "Grey"

"Head" and "Said"

Slant Rhyme

"Faces" and "Houses"

"Gibe" and "Club"

"I" and "________"

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: they fought like cats and dogs

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: her lips are a blooming rose

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language: The rain poured down on the wedding guests, indifferent to their plans

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

Multiple Choice

Figurative Language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

Sound Devices

poets use sounds to create rhythm and texture to their work.

- alliteration --> repetition of consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words

- repetition --> repeating a word or phrase more than once

- onomatopoeia --> words that imitate a sound

Multiple Choice

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life..."

- from Romeo and Juliet

• alliteration

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?

Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?

Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?

Do you think I am trusty and faithful?"

- from Are You The New Person Drawn To Me by Walt Whitman

• alliteration

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings...

And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide."

• alliteration

• repetition

• onomatopoeia