Poetry Devices quiz - English 12 Honors

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• As you hang by your nose, From a high-up trapeze.

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

• Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard

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What is an allusion?

• Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize.

• a deceptive appearance or impression.

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work

• The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity.

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Which of the following is an example of anaphora?

• If there be cords, or knives, or poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I'll not endure it

• That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both

• Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/

  Tears from the depth of some divine despair

• He's but a coof for a' that:/

  For a' that, an' a' that,/

  His ribband, star, an' a' that:

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An apostrophe is

• The speaker of the poem

• The narrator of the poem

• The subject of the poem

• An address to another person not present

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Which is an example of blank verse?

• To be, or not to be, that is the question:/

  Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

• Let us go then, you and I,/

  When the evening is spread out against the sky

• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in/

  my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

• THAT’S my last Duchess painted on the wall,/

  Looking as if she were alive. I call

Which is an example of a couplet?

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,/

  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,

• Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,/

  When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

• If this be error and upon me proved,/

  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,/

  The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;

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What is a line with 5 feet called?

• Tetrameter

• Pentameter

• Hexameter

• Heptameter

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Are the lines in the following poem end-stopped or enjambed?

• End-stopped

• Enjambed

• Neither

• Both

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Which of the following is an iamb?

• Unstressed syllable/ Stressed syllable

• Stressed syllable/ Unstressed syllable

• Unstressed syllable/ Unstressed syllable / Stressed Syllable

• Stressed syllable/ Stressed syllable / Unstressed Syllable

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What is meter?

• The number of lines in a poem.

• The number of feet within a poem.

• The number of feet within a line of poetry.

• The number of rhymes within a poem.

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