Literary Devices Quiz

Alliteration

• Repetition of final sounds

• Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• Rhyme in a stanza

• A kind of imagery

Example of alliteration

• “Bright fire”

• “Cold wind”

• “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”

• “Could you could the clouds?”

Allusion

• A fictional narrator

• A direct quote

• A reference to something familiar

• A poem’s structure

Connotation

• Dictionary definition

• Sound of a word

• Personal/emotional association

• A rhyme device

Couplet

• Two lines that rhyme and form a unit

• Five-line stanza

• Free-verse section

• A poem with iambs

Figurative Language

• Literal language only

• Saying more than literal meaning

• A meter device

• A free verse tool

Free Verse

• Strict rhyme scheme

• No regular meter or rhyme

• A stanza type

• A narrative form

Hyperbole

• “I could eat a horse!”

• “Her eyes sparkled.”

• “The bell tolled.”

• “The wind sighed.”

Iamb

• Two stressed syllables

• Unstressed-stressed pattern

• A rhyme unit

• A stanza form

Iambic Pentameter

• Five iambs per line

• Ten total syllables

• Five-word line

• Stanza form