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Poetry & Literary Devices 2016

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9th - 10th Grade

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Poetry & Literary Devices 2016
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two lines of a verse that rhyme are known as...

Couplet
Rhythm
Alliteration
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art or literature is known as....

Personification
Alliteration
Dissonance 
Pathetic Fallacy 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An allusion is....

Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Giving human like characteristics or traits to non-human things
A reference to a popular/important thing
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or a verse.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An exaggeration in poetry/literature is known as a....

Exaggeration!
Assonance 
Hyperbole 
Enjambment    

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end or a line, couplet, or stanza...

Apostrophe
Enjambment
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Haiku has a total of _____ lines. 

3
5
17
7

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Soft, smooth, snow falls silently from the sky is an example of which literary device?

Personification
Caesura
Alliteration
Iambic Pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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