Elements of Poetry and Imagery Quiz

Identify the elements of poetry-sound shown in each highlighted poem’s excerpt.

"The Raven”

By – Edgar Allan Poe

"Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered,

weak and weary,"

• Alliteration
• Assonance

• Consonance

• Rhythm

• Euphony

Identify the elements of poetry-sound shown in each highlighted poem’s excerpt.

"The Bells"

By – Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpt:

"Hear the mellow wedding bells"

• Assonance
• Consonance

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Euphony

Identify the elements of poetry-sound shown in each highlighted poem’s excerpt.

"The Bells"

By – Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpt:

"Hear the sledges with the bells-

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance

• Consonance

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

Identify the elements of poetry-sound shown in each highlighted poem’s excerpt.

"The Bells"

By – Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpt:

"How they clang, and clash, and roar!“

"What a horror they outpour /

On the bosom of the palpitating air!"

• Cacophony
• Euphony

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Identify the elements of poetry-sound shown in each highlighted poem’s excerpt.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

By – Robert Frost

Excerpt:

""He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake."

• Euphony
• Cacophony

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Alliteration

Identify the type of imagery shown in each poem’s excerpt.

"Daffodils" – William Wordsworth

Excerpt:

"A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

Identify the type of imagery shown in each poem’s excerpt.

"The Red Wheelbarrow

By William Carlos Williams

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens"

Identify the type of imagery shown in each poem’s excerpt.

"The Raven"

By Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpt:

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

Identify the type of imagery shown in each poem’s excerpt.

"Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys

as Shannon began practicing her concerto."

Identify the type of imagery shown in each poem’s excerpt.

"The candy melted in her mouth

and swirls of bittersweet chocolate

and slightly sweet but salty caramel blended together on her tongue."