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WorksheetsPoetic terminology revision
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
The wonderful wind whistles...
The angry clouds marched across the sky.
Which of the following is an example of an allusion?
"I rise, I rise, I rise."
"It was such an obvious lie, I was surprised his nose didn’t start growing."
"She had a photographic memory but never developed it."
A harsh or unpleasant sound is referred to as
euphony
cacophony
The theme or symbolic, deeper meaning of a poem.
Literal meaning
Figurative meaning
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Pun
Meter
The dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Connotation
The layers of meaning that a word has, or the emotional associations or implications of a word.
Denotation
Connotation
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance
Consonance
If love is like a bridge
or maybe like a grudge.
- George Wolff
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." - The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
end rhyme
identical rhyme
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
"All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are..." (Sonnet 35)
end rhyme
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
sight rhyme
What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Gustatory
What time of imagery would feature these words?
spicy, tangy, salty, sweet, sour, bitter
tactile
auditory
gustatory
olfactory
"The fragrance of the flowers filled the air."
What sense created the image?
tactile
olfactory
kinaesthetic
gustatory
A fancier word for a "run on line" is...
caesura
hyperbole
stanza
enjambement
A pause in the middle of a line in poetry is referred to as...
enjambement
caesura
volta
sibilance
