Literary Devices Quiz

Alliteration

• Repetition of final sounds

• Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• Rhyme in a stanza

• A kind of imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Example of alliteration

• “Bright fire”

• “Cold wind”

• “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”

• “Could you could the clouds?”

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Allusion

• A fictional narrator

• A direct quote

• A reference to something familiar

• A poem’s structure

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Connotation

• Dictionary definition

• Sound of a word

• Personal/emotional association

• A rhyme device

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Couplet

• Two lines that rhyme and form a unit

• Five-line stanza

• Free-verse section

• A poem with iambs

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Figurative Language

• Literal language only

• Saying more than literal meaning

• A meter device

• A free verse tool

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Free Verse

• Strict rhyme scheme

• No regular meter or rhyme

• A stanza type

• A narrative form

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Hyperbole

• “I could eat a horse!”

• “Her eyes sparkled.”

• “The bell tolled.”

• “The wind sighed.”

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Iamb

• Two stressed syllables

• Unstressed-stressed pattern

• A rhyme unit

• A stanza form

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Iambic Pentameter

• Five iambs per line

• Ten total syllables

• Five-word line

• Stanza form

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4