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WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This word describes groups of lines in a poem. Sometimes, it’s called a verse.
chapter
stanza
verse
page
This word describes the beat of a poem.
rhyme
rhythm
meter
music
What is imagery?
Comparing something to something else using as or like.
When the writer uses words of the same type to create a mood or theme.
The associations of a word- what it makes you think of.
When the writer puts a picture in the reader’s head, often by focusing on detail.
A type of poetry that has no set rhyme, rhythm or structure is called...
free verse
ballad
sonnet
haiku
What is it called when a sentence continues on to the next line of a poem?
caesura
assonance
refrain
enjambment
a pause in the middle of a line is called...
repetition
assonance
caesura
onomatopoeia
What kind of figurative language makes a comparison using "like" or "as"?
metaphor
simile
allusion
personification
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,
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
rhyme scheme
aposiopesis
________________ is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
allusion
symbolism
ephigraph
hyperbole
anthropomorphism is a more complex form of what?
aphorism
consonance
personification
innuendo
