Poetry Terms Pre-Quiz

The use of words that imitate the sounds they represent is called __________. 

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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Literary Terms

A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythological, or literary person, place, event, or work is called __________.

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Simile

What is the term for the inexactness or uncertainty in a poem's meaning?

• Metaphor
• Irony
• Ambiguity
• Simile

• Which term describes the repetition of similar vowel sounds within a word?

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Rhyme

Which of the following are elements of a poem's structure?

• figurative language

• stanzas

• line breaks

• speaker

Which of the following are elements of a poem's sound?

• assonance

• alliteration

• enjambment

• Rhyme

Where does a caesura occur in these lines?

• "There's childhood, and there's childhood's aftermath."

• "She began to remember"

• "at the minute of the fireflies, to the sound of pipe water"

• "to my brother and myself."

• Pun
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Where does consonance occur in this stanza?

• the Os in the first line

• the Hs in the second line

• the Ns in the third line

• the As in the fourth line

Refers to the attitude of a writer or speaker toward a subject that they are writing about.

• Mood

• Tone

• Consonance

• Allusion