Poetry Quiz

Identify which poetic device is used below:
The wonderful wind whistles...

• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Simile

Identify which poetic device is used below:
"I must confess that in my quest
 I felt depressed and restless."

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Refrain
• Personification

Repeating the same word or phrase to make an idea clearer 

• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• Repetition

A grouping of lines in a poem or song

• mood

• alliteration

• stanza

• simile

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
The author most likely uses repetition at the end of this poem to highlight...

• That he doesn't want to travel any farther.
• That he doesn't know where he's headed. 
• How long the journey is ahead of him.
• How tired he is. 

Like a hawk I soar above
balconies and bluffs.
A bewildering blur
Which poetic device did the author use in the last 2 lines of this poem?

• Alliteration
• Sensory Language
• Similie
• Hyperbole

What is rhythm in a poem?

• The combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

• The repeated sound of word endings in a poem.

• The physical structure of a poem.

• The repeated sound of sounds, words, or phrases in a poem.

Which of the following is an example of internal rhyme?

• Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

  How I wonder what you are

  Up above the world so high,

  Like a diamond in the sky.

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

• Hope is the thing with feathers

  That perches in the soul,

  And sings the tune without the words,

  And never stops at all.

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

• AABBB

• ABABA

• AABBA

• ABBBA

What is the difference between assonance and consonance?

• Assonance is at the beginning of words, and consonance is at the end of words.

• Assonance is for consonants, and consonance is for vowels.

• Assonance is for vowels, and consonance is for consonants.

• Assonance is at the end of words, and consonance is at the beginning.