Poetic Elements Quiz

The literal meaning of a word.

• connotation

• denotation

• syntax

• enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.

• simile

• tone

• alliteration

• diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When in Dorothy Parker’s poem “A Certain Lady,” the speaker says that she can “drink your rushing words with eager lips” it is not literal. (You can’t drink words, and you can’t drink with your lips.)

• figurative language

• symbol

• syntax

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The “narrator” of the poem, not necessarily the poet

• syntax

• diction

• speaker

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Word order

• diction

• enjambment

• syntax

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A literal comparison, usually using like or as.

• simile

• meter

• enjambment

• syntax

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The emotion conveyed by the poem, or the attitude that the speaker has towards the topic.

• symbol

• connotation

• tone

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The suggested meaning of a word. Mark only one oval.

• stanza

• connotation

• paradox

• meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In her poem "[Go not too near a House of Rose—]," Emily Dickinson uses the __________ of the rose, counting on her readers to understand its historical meaning. She does not explain what the rose means to her.

• metaphor

• stanza

• syntax

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In his poem, "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds," William Shakespeare uses a __________ to explain the abstract concept of love saying “it is a lighthouse. / That looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9