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Poetic Devices and Form

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is allusion?

a)

When a poet refers to something in a passing manner

b)

When a poet tricks the reader

c)

When the poet illuminates the reader on a new topic

d)

When the reader connects the dots between poems

2.

What is free verse poetry?

a)

Poetry about freedom

b)

Poetry without set rules

3.

What is this an example of?


"I've got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA"

(a)  

4.

Shakespeare created a new type of this poetic form.

a)

Ballad

b)

Haiku

c)

Limmerick

d)

Sonnet

5.

An "iamb" is a...

a)

metric foot

b)

type of couplet

c)

form of rhyme

d)

serious limmerick

6.

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

“A Poppy Blooms” by Katsushika Hokusai


This type of poetry is a...

(a)  

7.

Ballads originated from...

a)

Meatloaf's music

b)

Ballet

c)

Folk music

d)

Fairy tales

8.

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"


Is an example of...

a)

Assonance

b)

Repetition

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Juxtaposition

9.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


This passage has examples of...

a)

Rhyme

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Juxtaposition

10.

She was a mama bear protecting her cubs.


What poetic device is this?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

11.

"Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe.


Is an example of...

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Onomatopoeia

12.

Iambic pentameter is

a)

The meter of Shakespearean sonnets

b)

Five metric feet