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Poetic Devices

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Stanza?

a)

A Group of lines in a poem

b)

The last line in a poem

c)

The first line in a poem

d)

When a poem doesn't have any punctuation.

2.

What is Enjambment?

a)

A run-on line of poetry, the line makes sense over two lines.

b)

A break in the middle of the line.

c)

A one line stanza

d)

A group of words

3.

What is a juxtaposition?

a)

Two words that are opposite

b)

A describing word

c)

Placement of two things closely together to emphasise comparisons

d)

A word denoting an action

4.

What is repetition?

a)

Repeated use of sound, words or ideas for effect

b)

Comparative language

c)

Pushing for change through language

d)

A smaller factor of adjective.

5.

What is sibilance?

a)

Similar vowel sounds in words

b)

Similar consonant sounds at the end of words

c)

The repetition of the "s" sound between words

d)

The use of similar starting words in a sentence

6.

What is a rhyme Scheme?

a)

Words that sound the same

b)

Words that have the same connotations

c)

Words that have similar meanings

d)

A regular pattern of rhyming words

7.

A couplet is when two consecutive (one after the other) (a)   with each other.

8.

A simile is a comparison using "_____" or "_____"

(a)  

9.

What is a metaphor?

a)

Comparing using "like" or "as"

b)

Comparing things without "like" or "as"

c)

Comparing things using only "like"

d)

Comparing things using only "as"

10.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same (a)   at the start of words in a sentence.

11.

Onomatopoeia is when words imitates the (a)   it represents.

12.

Personification is giving inanimate objects, ______ or _____ characteristics.

a)

Human

b)

Whale

c)

Animal

d)

Dolphin