Poetry Terms Pre-Test

POETIC DEVICE: "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be."

• Allusion
• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Alliteration

POETIC DEVICE:  “Boom, clap – the sound of my heart, the beat goes on.”

• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Allusion
• Simile

POETIC DEVICE: "It's sort of whiz, whir, wheeze, whine."

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Allusion

POETIC DEVICE:  “The look in your eyes as you head for the door is a cold fire.” 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

What type of stanza has four lines? 

• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Sestet
• Octave

POETIC DEVICE : “The earth has swallowed all my hope!”

• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Simile

Identify the Rhyme scheme:

• AABBAA
• ABABAB
• ABABCC
• AABBCC

POETIC DEVICE:  "You'll be my honeysuckle, And I'll be your honey bee"

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

What type of stanza has six lines? 

• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Sestet
• Octave

POETIC DEVICE: “It’s hard not to find it all a little bittersweet” 

• Oxymoron
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Allusion