WorksheetsLiterary Terms
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
A reference to a recognizable person, event, work of art, or object in order to make a comparison
Allusion
Simile
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
A situation or saying that reveals a contradiction with reality
Irony
Paradox
Meter
Rhythm
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
Hyperbole
Allusion
Assonance
Caesura
A comparison between two essentially unlike things
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Imagery
A statement which appears to be self-contradictory but actually reveals a truth
Paradox
Allusion
Rhythm
Symbol
A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" to make the connection
Simile
Metaphor
Enjambment
Stanza
An object or idea that represents something else with a deeper meaning
Symbol
Meter
Paradox
Simile
A group of poetic lines equivalent to a paragraph in prose
Stanza
Caesura
Meter
Repetition
A rhyme pattern based on the last word of each line, denoted by capital letters
Rhyme scheme
Meter
Symbol
Rhythm
The continuation of a sentence of poetry from one line to the next without a pause
Enjambment
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
Synesthesia
A pause in a line of poetry due to punctuation or rhythmic flow, sometimes marked by a "double pipe"
Caesura
Meter
Symbol
Paradox
A pattern of beats in a poem based on the number of syllables and stresses
Meter
Caesura
Alliteration
Symbol
A similarity in sound at the end of two words within the same line or poetry
Internal rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Onomatopoeia
Simile
The occurrence of sound patterns in poetry
Rhythm
Repetition
Rhyme scheme
Enjambment
A word, phrase, or line that is repeated in a poem for dramatic effect
Repetition
Assonance
Rhyme scheme
Allusion
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
Alliteration
Assonance
Simile
Personification
The repetition of vowel sounds without consonants
Assonance
Alliteration
Enjambment
Internal rhyme
A word that mimics the sound it is describing
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Irony
Synesthesia
The attribution of human-like characteristics to something nonhuman
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Language that appeals to physical senses
Imagery
Synesthesia
Alliteration
Symbol
A figure of speech that connects one sense to another by describing one sense using the terms of another
Synesthesia
Hyperbole
Imagery
Allusion
The following is an example of ________________.
"So Eden sank to grief"
Allusion
Paradox
Synesthesia
Simile
The following is an example of ________________.
"Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink"
Irony
Metaphor
Alliteration
Symbol
The following is an example of ________________.
"I'll love you dear, I'll love you / Till China and Africa meet"
Hyperbole
Allusion
Imagery
Rhythm
The following is an example of ________________.
"Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly"
Metaphor
Irony
Allusion
Assonance
The following is an example of ________________.
"Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is"
Paradox
Symbol
Personification
Assonance
The following is an example of ________________.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Simile
Metaphor
Internal rhyme
Personification
The following is an example of ________________.
"Why is it no one ever sent me yet / One perfect limousine, do you suppose? / Ah no, it's always just my luck to get / One perfect rose"
Symbol
Meter
Allusion
Personification
The following is an example of ________________.
"They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware"
Stanza
Meter
Paradox
Synesthesia
The following is an example of ________________.
"Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, (A)
But as for me, helas, I may no more. (B)
The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, (B)
I am them that farthest comest behind" (A)
ABBA
Rhyme scheme
Meter
Allusion
Symbol
The following is an example of ________________.
"So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow"
Enjambment
Irony
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
The following is an example of ________________.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, || while i pondered weak and weary"
Caesura
Symbol
Assonance
Stanza
The following is an example of ________________.
u / u / u / u /
"Come live with me and be my love"
Meter
Stanza
Repetition
Imagery
The following is an example of ________________.
"I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores"
Internal rhyme
Assonance
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
The following is an example of ________________.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Rhythm
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
The following is an example of ________________.
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
Repetition
Rhyme scheme
Assonance
Paradox
The following is an example of ________________.
"Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!"
Alliteration
Assonance
Allusion
Rhyme scheme
The following is an example of ________________.
"Hear the mellow wedding bells"
Assonance
Rhythm
Metaphor
Enjambment
The following is an example of ________________.
"It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes"
Onomatopoeia
Irony
Hyperbole
Repetition
The following is an example of ________________.
"Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me"
Personification
Imagery
Stanza
Irony
The following is an example of ________________.
"When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"
Imagery
Synesthesia
Metaphor
Rhythm
The following is an example of ________________.
"O tun thee to the very tale,
And taste the music of that vision pale"
Synesthesia
Imagery
Symbol
Meter
