Poetic Elements Quiz

The literal meaning of a word

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Syntax

• Enjambment

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words

• Simile

• Tone

• Alliteration

• Diction

In Dorothy Parker’s poem “A Certain Lady,” the speaker says that she can “drink your rushing words with eager lips”. This is an example of...

• Figurative language

• Symbol

• Syntax

• Alliteration

The “narrator” of the poem, not necessarily the poet

• Syntax

• Diction

• Speaker

• Tone

Word order

• Diction

• Enjambment

• Syntax

• Tone

A literal comparison, usually using like or as

• Simile

• Meter

• Enjambment

• Syntax

The emotion conveyed by the poem, or the attitude that the speaker has towards the topic

• Symbol

• Conotation

• Tone

• Paradox

The suggested meaning of a word

• Stanza

• Connotation

• Paradox

• Meter

In her poem “Go not too near a House of Rose,“ Emily Dickinson uses the __________ of the rose, counting on her readers to understand its historical meaning. She does not explain what the rose means to her.

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Syntax

• Symbol

In his poem, “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds,” William Shakespeare uses a ____________ to explain the abstract concept of love saying “it is a lighthouse. / That looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Paradox