Poetic Devices Quiz

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• Leerjaar 2

Literature V4

Wat moet je kennen?

•  Titels en schrijvers
•  Inhoud van gedichten en fragmenten begrijpen, verbanden kunnen leggen met achtergrond schrijver of tijd.
•  Thema's en genres kunnen benoemen.
•  Poetic devices kunnen benoemen, voorbeelden kunnen geven. 

Poetic Devices Quiz

Happy by Pharrell:

"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof"

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Alliteration
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

Running Water by Lee Emmett:

“water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill”

1. Personification
2. Assonance
3. Oenomatopoeia
4. Metaphor

Emily Dickinson:

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all."

1. Personification
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

Edgar Ellan Poe, the bells:

"Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!"

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Alliteration
3. Personification
4. Assonance

Careless Whisper (by George Michael)

I’m never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it’s easy to pretend. I know you’re not a fool…
…Time can never mend
The careless whisper of a good friend
To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind
There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.

1. Personification
2. Alliteration
3. Assonance
4. Metaphor

Big Yellow Taxi (Vanessa Carlton, Counting Crows)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Alliteration
3. Assonance
4. Metaphor

American Smooth (Rita Dove)

We were dancing—it must have
been a foxtrot or a waltz,
something romantic but
requiring restraint,

1. Run-on lines
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Assonance
4. Metaphor

The pattern of rhyming within a poem

1. Rhyme scheme
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Sonnet
4. Haiku

The arrangement of groups of lines in a poem; they are set off from each other by a blank line

1. Stanza
2. Meter
3. Limerick
4. Sonnet

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses

1. Alliteration
2. Stanza
3. Metaphor
4. Imagery

A regular pattern of rhythm within a poem; determined by the number of stresses or beats in each line

1. Imagery
2. Personification
3. Metre
4. Limerick

To repeat the same phrase or words numerous times in a poem

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Repetition
3. Stanza
4. Words