Poetic Terms and Meanings Quiz
Authored by Angelique Wilson
English
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is used when a story, poem, or picture can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one?
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness?
Ambiguity
Analogy
Assonance
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it?
Ambiguity
Analogy
Assonance
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words?
Ambiguity
Analogy
Assonance
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is a poem or song that tells a story in short stanzas?
Ballad
Cacophony
Connotation
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