Review Poetry terms and Literary Devices

Review Poetry Terms and Literary Devices

By Stacy Shube

Multiple Choice

A STANZA in poetry is most closely related to what in prose?

• An essay

• A thesis statement

• A paragraph

• A work cited page

Multiple Choice

The line "I saw it there, but saw nothing in it, except the rising of the boiling bubble" is an example of which literary/poetic device?

• allusion

• rhyme

• parallel structure

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Parallels structure occurs when

• a writer gets lazy and keeps repeating him/herself.

• mathematical concepts line up with literary concepts.

• the same pattern of words connect ideas to each other.

• writers use synonyms to avoid repeating the same words over and over again.

Multiple Choice

This stanza from Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" illustrates what poetic device?

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Imagery

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Metaphors involve

• using language that appeals to the senses.

• comparing two unlike things without a comparative word like "like" or "as."

• using a part to represent a whole.

• animals, ideas, and objects are given human characteristics.

Multiple Choice

The poems "Dreams" by Langston Hughes demonstrates an obvious example of

Hold fast to dreams 
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

• symbolism

• alliteration

• allusion

• personification

Multiple Choice

In Emily Dickinson's poem "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" she makes obvious use of what literary/poetic device?

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading - treading - till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum -

Kept beating - beating - till I thought

My mind was going numb -

• oxymoron

• parallel stucture

• imagery

• allusion

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of synecdoche?

• "As American as apple pie"

• "My love is a red, red rose."

• "It was a Herculean task."

• "Check out my new wheels."

Multiple Choice

Connotation and denotation are most closely aligned with what literary term/poetic device?

• Diction

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Paradox