WorksheetsGreen Game
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is language that appeals to the senses in poetry? It creates pictures in the head.
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Idiom
Rhyme
What is poetry written without any rhyme, rhythm or form?
Alliteration
Imagery
Free Verse
Assonance
What is a common effect of an end rhyming couplet?
to foreshadow or suggest death/destruction
to create a sense of mystery
to emphasize the theme
to highlight something positive
Which device is at play here:
I ran, swam, jumped, swam!
asyndeton
caesura
polysyndeton
epistrophe
What term best applies to this line: "The wind screamed about my window that February night"?
consonance
alliteration
personification
euphemism
If you read the line: "He whispered into the dark, dank heart of the night", you would think of what term to use to describe it?
consonance
meter
metaphor
imagery
If I wrote the line "The ship was in distress upon the livid sea", I would be using which poetic device?
alliteration
assonance
personification
simile
____________ is a type of Japanese poetry that is made up of three lines
diamonte
limerick
riddle
haiku
This kind of poetry forms the shape of its subject.
diamonte
limerick
concrete
pictorial
_______________________ are humorous poems of five lines. They have definite rhythm and a rhyme scheme of aabba.
diamonte
limerick
cinquain
lyric
A _______________is any extravagant statement or exaggeration for effect.
hyperbole
allusion
Caesura
Anapest
What is the rhyme scheme in these lines?
“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.”
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AAAB
AABB
ABAB
A word's emotional meaning/feeling
imagery
connotation
meter
denotation
The voice talking to the reader in a poem
the character
the author
the speaker
the poet
What is a change in focus or tone in a poem
stanza
rhythm or rhyme
shift or turn
caesura
What poetic device is this: The pen is mightier than the sword
personification
synecdoche
metonymy
syntax
What is an example of Asyndeton?
The brick of the box of despair
She was a beautiful mess, a bottle of emotions, a strong vision.
Keep your money and pride and rules and structure. I will take my freedom and bliss and courage.
Why do that?
Why be this
Why commit?
What is an example of consonance?
Not now, not ever
The clock struck five.
I wish I could be rich
A dove is know to symbolize which of the following?
death
peace
understanding
a bird
Synecdoche is
repetition of words at the end of lines or sentences
when a part of something is used to represent the whole
when the name of a thing is replaced by the name of something else with which it is closely associated
