Poetic Techniques Quiz

the repetition of

the same or similar consonant

sounds in words that are close

together

• anaphora

• allusion

• alliteration

• asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"I hold with those who favor fire" - Robert Frost

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

When a writer or speaker refers to something from history or literature and expects her audience to understand to what she is referring. Most commonly (in Western literature/art/culture) are to: the Bible, Shakespeare, Greek/Roman Mythology.

• allusion

• alliteration

• anaphora

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.

• metaphor

• simile

• hype

• hyperbole

• hyphy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object. Suggest the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object.

• metaphor

• simile

• metonymy

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

A comparison, usually using "like" or "as,” of two essentially dissimilar things.

• metaphor

• juxtaposition

• simile

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects.

• hyperbole

• personification

• figurative language

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A brief poem written to be inscribed on a gravestone.

• epigraph

• epitaph

• eulogy

• last rites

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

the rhyme occurs at the end of the verse lines

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• half rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the rhyme occurs within a line of verse

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• half rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9