Poetic Techniques

Poetic Techniques

10th Grade - University

16 Qs

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Poetic Techniques

Poetic Techniques

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th Grade - University

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Created by

Jennifer Hope

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16 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The repetition of a letter sound at the beginning of two (or more) words.


e.g. Deep into the depths of darkness I descended…

assonance

alliteration

simile

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When an object/colour/image is used to represent an idea.

e.g. A rose might signify love; the colour black might represent death; a dove is an image of peace.

symbolism

juxtaposition

anaphora

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else.”

e.g. This assignment is a breeze.

His words were daggers in my heart.

free verse

metaphor

onomatopoeia

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A repetition of hissing sounds in two (or more) words.

e.g. Sing a song of sixpence.

Conspiring cells of summer shells.

sibilance

allusion

rhyme

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.

e.g. Before the sunrise

a chain of red clouds rise

and all else is in the darkness.

symbolism

metaphor

enjambment

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a comparison is made between two things.

e.g. It was as cold as a snowy winter’s eve.

She ran, like a bullet from a gun, towards the finish line.

juxtaposition

rhythm

simile

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A poem that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not have a regular rhyme scheme.

e.g. Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall,

she walks

by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,

dying.

And round about there is a rabble

Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.

They shall inherit the earth.

In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive

and there will be no end for the children of the universe.

rhyme

free verse

alliteration

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