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Poetic Devices

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This word describes groups of lines in a poem. Sometimes, it’s called a verse.

a)

chapter

b)

stanza

c)

verse

d)

page

2.

This word describes the beat of a poem.

a)

rhyme

b)

rhythm

c)

meter

d)

music

3.

What is imagery?

a)

Comparing something to something else using as or like.

b)

When the writer uses words of the same type to create a mood or theme.

c)

The associations of a word- what it makes you think of.

d)

When the writer puts a picture in the reader’s head, often by focusing on detail.

4.

A type of poetry that has no set rhyme, rhythm or structure is called...

a)

free verse

b)

ballad

c)

sonnet

d)

haiku

5.

What is it called when a sentence continues on to the next line of a poem?

a)

caesura

b)

assonance

c)

refrain

d)

enjambment

6.

a pause in the middle of a line is called...

a)

repetition

b)

assonance

c)

caesura

d)

onomatopoeia

7.

What kind of figurative language makes a comparison using "like" or "as"?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

personification

8.

The following example contains an instance of what?


Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

a)

internal rhyme

b)

slant rhyme

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

aposiopesis

9.

________________ is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

a)

allusion

b)

symbolism

c)

ephigraph

d)

hyperbole

10.

anthropomorphism is a more complex form of what?

a)

aphorism

b)

consonance

c)

personification

d)

innuendo