Poetry Devices Practice

Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• Sound

• Sight

• Taste

• Touch

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.

• Words that sound alike.

• An exaggeration.

• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

What device is used here: 
The flame of the candle danced in the dark.

• Onomatopoeia

• Enjambment

• Personification 

• Repetition 

Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of...

• figurative language

• sensory language

• genres

• media

Which is not a term used when talking about poetry?

• line

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

• paragraph

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."

• The repetition of a letter.

• The repetition of an ending sound.

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical

• Old-fashioned

• Important

• Difficult

In poetry, what is "meter" ?

• Words that sound the same

• Sophisticated vocabulary

• The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

• The length of a poem

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyberbole