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WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a Stanza?
A Group of lines in a poem
The last line in a poem
The first line in a poem
When a poem doesn't have any punctuation.
What is Enjambment?
A run-on line of poetry, the line makes sense over two lines.
A break in the middle of the line.
A one line stanza
A group of words
What is a juxtaposition?
Two words that are opposite
A describing word
Placement of two things closely together to emphasise comparisons
A word denoting an action
What is repetition?
Repeated use of sound, words or ideas for effect
Comparative language
Pushing for change through language
A smaller factor of adjective.
What is sibilance?
Similar vowel sounds in words
Similar consonant sounds at the end of words
The repetition of the "s" sound between words
The use of similar starting words in a sentence
What is a rhyme Scheme?
Words that sound the same
Words that have the same connotations
Words that have similar meanings
A regular pattern of rhyming words
A couplet is when two consecutive (one after the other) (a) with each other.
A simile is a comparison using "_____" or "_____"
(a)
What is a metaphor?
Comparing using "like" or "as"
Comparing things without "like" or "as"
Comparing things using only "like"
Comparing things using only "as"
Alliteration is the repetition of the same (a) at the start of words in a sentence.
Onomatopoeia is when words imitates the (a) it represents.
Personification is giving inanimate objects, ______ or _____ characteristics.
Human
Whale
Animal
Dolphin
