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Vocabulary - Poetic Devices - 12/6/24

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A word for a sound that reproduces the sound.

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

ominous

d)

rhyme

2.

A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.

a)

rhyme

b)

mood

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

idiom

3.

Repetition of the same beginning sound in two or more words.

a)

stanza

b)

exact rhyme

c)

relevancy

d)

alliteration

4.

A poetic paragraph. There are usually double spaces between these.

a)

approximate rhyme

b)

line

c)

shutter

d)

stanza

5.

These make up the stanzas in the poem. They are not necessarily sentences.

a)

ominous

b)

phrases

c)

syllables

d)

lines

6.

The same middle AND end sounds in two or more words.

a)

exact rhyme

b)

melancholy

c)

ebony

d)

approximate rhyme

7.

Same middle OR end sounds in two or more words.

a)

alliteration

b)

peering

c)

approximate rhyme

d)

exact rhyme

8.

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer is trying to create in the reader's mind (e.g.: calm, anxiety, joy, anger, fear, etc.).

a)

bleak

b)

mood

c)

ghastly

d)

irony

9.

A narrator that cannot be trusted to tell the story accurately. These narrators may mislead readers, either on purpose or unintentionally.

a)

omniscient narrator

b)

unreliable narrator

c)

limited narrator

d)

commentator

10.

Not hopeful or encouraging; depressing; dark & barren.

a)

bleak

b)

optimistic

c)

idyllic

d)

complacent

11.

To look carefully & steadily at something or someone.

a)

shutter

b)

bleak

c)

peer

d)

censor

12.

A wooden cover on the outside of a window. They usually come in pairs & are hung like doors on hinges.

a)

bust

b)

ghastly

c)

stanza

d)

shutter

13.

A very dark black color with undertones of brown.

a)

chartreuse

b)

ebony

c)

eggshell

d)

pallid

14.

A sculpture of a person's head, neck, & partial shoulders & chest.

a)

bust

b)

seraphim

c)

peer

d)

stanza

15.

Something that worries you because it makes you think something bad is going to happen; threatening or menacing.

a)

ghastly

b)

ominous

c)

bleak

d)

relevancy