WorksheetsPoetic Techniques
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
How is a Sonnet traditionally broken up?
Octave and sestet
Four quatrains
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet
One stanza of 12 lines and a rhyming couplet
A long pause or break within a line is called...
Enjambment
Caesura
Assonance
Consonance
The technique which describes a clause or phrase which runs on between lines or verses without a pause is...
Metre
Caesura
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
What is the name given to a phrase or line which recurs throughout a poem?
Repetition
Refrain
Anaphora
Assonance
If a poem is written without metre, pattern or rhyme which form is it written in?
Blank verse
Free verse
Ballad
Sestina
Choose the correct poetic device.
The repetition of a consonant sound, especially at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Sibilance
Which technique involves using the 5 senses to create an image in the reader’s mind?
Imagery
Rhythm
Symbolism
Adjectives
Which name is given to the technique when ideas, places, characters, or their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts?
Symbolism
Free verse
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
What is iambic pentameter?
10 syllables per line, 5 stressed and 5 un-stressed
10 syllables per line, all stressed
8 syllables per line, 4 stressed and 4 un-stressed
Five syllables per line, stressed followed by unstressed
The type of imagery used in poetry which allows the reader to smell what the poet describes?
Odoural
Olfactory
Tactile
Gustatory
Which word is given to the general mood of the poem which controls your emotional response to the poem?
(a)
What is the term given to the repetition of similar or identical vowels throughout a
sentence. E.g. the owl hooted through the wooded trees.
(a)
A form of word play which suggests two or more meanings is called a
(a)
If the meaning of the poem/poet is unclear it is said to be what?
(a)
Rhyme occurring in a single line of verse is referred to as what?
(a)
