Poetic Device Quiz

Define: Alliteration

• The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

• giving human life qualities to non-living things

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• words whose sound suggest their meanings

Stanza

• Rhyming words

• Similar to paragraphs in a story

• a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

• giving human qualities to non living things

Assonance

• A phrase with words that contradict each other with opposite meanings

• giving human qualities to non living things

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• n poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Sonnet (Type of poem)

• a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports history, the arts, or the bible.

• words whose sound suggest their meanings

• a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

• an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

Soliloquy (type of poem)

• words whose sound suggest their meanings

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

Analogy

• The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

• a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

• giving human qualities to non living things

• A phrase with words that contradict each other with opposite meanings

Allusion

• words whose sound suggest their meanings

• A phrase with words that contradict each other with opposite meanings

• fake perception

• a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports history, the arts, or the bible.

Haiku

• a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

• a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.

• giving human qualities to non living things

• words whose sound suggest their meanings

Imagery

• an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

Free Verse

• poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

• The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

• giving human life qualities to non-living things

• an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true