Teaching Poetry with Literary Devices

What does the term "Alliteration" refer to in literature?

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary

• Associations

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

• Occurrence of same letter or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

What is the meaning of "Allusion"?

• Repeated words/phrases at the start of a line

• Indirectly hints at something 'alludes' to

• Associations

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary

What does "Ambiguous" mean?

• Associations

• Obscure or unclear

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

• Repeated words/phrases at the start of a line

What is "Anaphora" commonly used to describe?

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary

• Associations

• Repeated words/phrases at the start of a line

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

What is "Assonance" in the context of poetry?

• Occurrence of same letter or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Associations

• Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels but not consonants

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

What does "Caesura" denote in poetry?

• Associations

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

• Repeated words/phrases at the start of a line

What are "Connotations"?

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

• Associations

• Occurrence of same letter or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary

What is an "End stopped" line in poetry?

• Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words

• An indicated pause in the middle of the line

• Associations

• A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or comma

What does the term "Enjambment" refer to in poetry?

• A pattern of imagery

• A rhythmic pattern of ten syllables per line

• Continuation of sentence or phrase over a line with no indicated pause/break

• An extended piece of solo speech

What is "Iambic pentameter"?

• A pattern of imagery

• A rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables

• Describing something as something else

• An extended piece of solo speech