Poetic Techniques

How is a Sonnet traditionally broken up?

• Octave and sestet

• Four quatrains

• Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet

• One stanza of 12 lines and a rhyming couplet

A long pause or break within a line is called...

• Enjambment

• Caesura

• Assonance

• Consonance

The technique which describes a clause or phrase which runs on between lines or verses without a pause is...

• Metre

• Caesura

• Iambic pentameter

• Enjambment

What is the name given to a phrase or line which recurs throughout a poem?

• Repetition

• Refrain

• Anaphora

• Assonance

If a poem is written without metre, pattern or rhyme which form is it written in?

• Blank verse

• Free verse

• Ballad

• Sestina

Choose the correct poetic device.

The repetition of a consonant sound, especially at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Sibilance

Which technique involves using the 5 senses to create an image in the reader’s mind?

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Symbolism

• Adjectives

Which name is given to the technique when ideas, places, characters, or their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts?

• Symbolism

• Free verse

• Juxtaposition

• Oxymoron

What is iambic pentameter?

• 10 syllables per line, 5 stressed and 5 un-stressed

• 10 syllables per line, all stressed

• 8 syllables per line, 4 stressed and 4 un-stressed

• Five syllables per line, stressed followed by unstressed

The type of imagery used in poetry which allows the reader to smell what the poet describes?

• Odoural

• Olfactory

• Tactile

• Gustatory