The following lines are an example of what sound device? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”

Essentially a reference to something else, this literary device intentionally relies on the reader's understanding of history and/or literature. An example is the line "Night's Plutonian Shore" from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," with Plutonian being a reference to the Roman God of the Underworld, Plato. Note that Hades is the Greek equivalent to the Roman Pluto.

A word that sounds like what it means. Examples include buzz, splash, thump.

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. An example is the apple in The Book of Genesis representing temptation, knowledge, the fall of humankind.

The central meaning or dominant message the reader is trying to deliver to the reader

The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry - An example rhyme scheme is ABAB.

All of the following artistic choices would add layers of meaning to the central theme of a poem except

William Shakespeare employs several examples of what figure of speech in these lines from his classic play Romeo and Juliet? "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate." "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health."

The use of these three lines from a poem by Maya Angelou best show an example of what literary element?

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

In Poe’s poem titled "Alone," “the red cliff of the mountain” and the “autumn tint of gold” best demonstrate Poe’s use of what literary element?

The line "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming" is an example of what literary device?

Poe's expressive symbol "Night's Plutonian Shore" means

A type of literature that use the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways

A line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals throughout the poem. An example is Poe repeating the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" 5 times in his narrative poem "The Raven."