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WorksheetsPoetic Devices
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
How comfortable are you with poetic terms?
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Paragraph is to prose as ____ is to poetry
Verse
Line
Stanza
Sentence
A sonnet has ____ lines.
14
16
18
20
A narrative poem is...
a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme.
any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.
a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short.
normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
_____ is a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson.
didactic poem
dramatic poem
lyric poem
elegy
____ is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
couplet
blank verse
ballad meter
enjambment
Free verse is...
two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.
the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.
Each unit of meter is known as a/n...
ear
arm
toe
foot
Poetic foot is a group of ____ in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it.
Syllables
Lines
Rhymes
Words
A quatrain has ____ lines.
2
4
6
8
What meter does Shakespeare traditionally use in his sonnets?
Trochaic octameter
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Iambic tetrameter
____ is a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
Allusion
Illusion
Antithesis
Anaphora
___ is a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in: Man proposes; God disposes. ____ is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness.
conceit
antithesis
apostrophe
caesura
Parallelism is...
a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.
a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole.
a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.
a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself
Rhyme is...
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse.
a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate.
the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words.
How comfortable do you feel with poetry now that you have completed this?
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What are some things about poetry that you would like to know more about?
