Poetry Devices
Get your pens out, folks, because we’re diving straight into poetry today. What can you tell us about the poetic devices – such as imagery, theme, alliteration, simile, rhyme, etc. – and their uses? Let’s take a look.
- 1.The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words within the same line of a poem.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Allusion
- C.
Alliteration
- D.
Rhyme
- 2.A rhetorical device were a speaker of the poem addresses a non-human or innanimate object as if it can hear him or her, but expects no reply in return.
- A.
Consonance
- B.
Apostrophe
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Meter
- 3.An intended extreme exaggeration.
- A.
Free Verse
- B.
Simile
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Hyperbole
- 4.A reference to a well-known place, event, person, literary work, or work of art.
- A.
Consonance
- B.
Assonance
- C.
Allusion
- D.
Imagery
- 5.A situation in whichh what is expected to appen contradicts what actually happens.
- A.
Sonnet
- B.
Couplet
- C.
Blank verse
- D.
Irony
- 6.2 rhyming words that are in 2 lines consecutively and rhyme. (.....love ....dove)
- A.
Couplet
- B.
Simile
- C.
Onomatopoeia
- D.
Inversion
- 7.The repetition of vowel sounds witin the same line of a poem.
- A.
Assonance
- B.
Extended Metaphor
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Meter
- 8.A figure of speec in wic a direct comparison is made between 2 unlike subjects.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Simile
- C.
Personification
- D.
Inversion
- 9.A situation in whic whhat is expected to happen contradicts what actually happens. (Type of...)
- A.
Situational Irony
- B.
Internal Rhyme
- C.
Verbal Irony
- D.
Sonnet
- 10.The voice behind te poet is often different .
- A.
Speaker
- B.
Sonnet
- C.
Shakespearean Sonnet
- D.
Irony
- 11.A group of lines in a poem that contain the same thematic idea, meter, or rhyme pattern.
- A.
Verbal Irony
- B.
Symbol
- C.
Stanza
- D.
Blank Verse
- 12.The repetition of consonant sounds withhin words in the same line of a poem.
- A.
Simile
- B.
Consonance
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Sonnet
- 13.A writer's attitude toward the subject wic he or she is writing.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Irony
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Situational Irony
- 14.A figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to compare unlike subjects.
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Personification
- C.
Simile
- D.
Meter
- 15.A 14 line poem usually written in rhymed iambic parameter that usually has a theme surrounding some type of love.
- A.
Sonnet
- B.
Shakespearean
- C.
Couplet
- D.
Free Verse
- 16.Use of descriptive words and phrasees that appeal to te five senses
- A.
Inversion
- B.
Imagery
- C.
Rhyme Scheme
- D.
Free Verse
- 17.A line of poetry where the rhyme occurs inside the line.
- A.
Internal Rhyme
- B.
Stanza
- C.
Blank Verse
- D.
Free Verse
- 18.The rhythmical patterns or beat in a line of poetry
- A.
Inversion
- B.
End Rhyme
- C.
Meter
- D.
Assonance
- 19.A figure of speec in wich a comparison of two unlike things is developed througout sveral lines of a poem.
- A.
Extended Metaphor
- B.
Meter
- C.
Free Verse
- D.
Blank Verse
- 20.A figure of speech in whic a comparison of two unlike things is hinted at indirectly.
- A.
Implied Metaphor
- B.
Consonance
- C.
Alliteration
- D.
Simile
- 21.The words at the end of a line that rhymes.
- A.
Rhyme Scheme
- B.
Meter
- C.
Inversion
- D.
End Rhyme
- 22.The intentional matching or repetition of sounds at the end of a line or poetry
- A.
Free Verse
- B.
Rhyme Scheme
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Alliteration
- 23.The intentional reversal of a normal order of words by the poet to fit a particular meter or rhyme scheme
- A.
Meter
- B.
Simile
- C.
Personification
- D.
Inversion
- 24.A form of poetry witout any rhyme or meter.
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Free Verse
- D.
Blank Verse
- 25.A sound device in which the spellingg of the word demonstrates the actual sound it is intended to make
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Personification
- C.
Meter
- D.
Onomatopoeia
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