WorksheetsLiterary Devices and Poetry
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as
Comparing two unlike things using like or as
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics
What is a simile?
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as
Comparing two unlike things using like or as
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics
What is onomatopoeia?
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.
The exact opposite of what you expect to happen
Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning
What is personification?
Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics
An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.
The exact opposite of what you expect to happen
Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning
What is hyperbole?
An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.
The exact opposite of what you expect to happen
Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning
The same sound repeating at the beginning of words
What is irony?
The exact opposite of what you expect to happen
Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning
The same sound repeating at the beginning of words
A group of lines
What is an idiom?
Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning
The same sound repeating at the beginning of words
A group of lines
A 14 line poem
What is alliteration?
The same sound repeating at the beginning of words
A group of lines
A 14 line poem
A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain
What is a sonnet?
A 14 line poem
A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
A group of lines
What is a villanelle?
A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain
A 14 line poem
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
A group of lines
What is a rhyme scheme?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
A group of lines
A 14 line poem
A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain
What is a stanza?
A group of lines
A 14 line poem
A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is a couplet?
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
3 line stanza
4 line stanza
6 line stanza
What is a tercet?
3 line stanza
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
4 line stanza
6 line stanza
What is a quatrain?
4 line stanza
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
3 line stanza
6 line stanza
What is a sestet?
6 line stanza
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
3 line stanza
4 line stanza
What is an octet?
8 line stanza
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
3 line stanza
4 line stanza
What is a refrain?
A repeated line throughout a poem
2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme
3 line stanza
4 line stanza
