V5 Poetic Devices Quiz

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Poetic Devices Quiz

What is alliteration?

1. A repetition of the first letter of a word
2. A repetition of a word
3. A repetition of vowel sounds in a word
4. A repetition of the first sound of a word

What is an enjambment?

1. a specific form of meter
2. a sentence that doesn't rhyme
3. a sentence that is broken off in a strange place
4. A specific form of rhyme

What is a hyperbole?

1. A specific type of simile
2. An impossible exaggeration
3. A specific type of rhyme
4. A specific type of poem

What is a metaphor?

1. A comparison with 'like' or 'as'
2. A one-way conversation of a character
3. Direct comparison between two unrelated things
4. Repetition of a phrase

What is an onomatopoeia?

1. Words that imitate sounds
2. An impossible exaggeration
3. A one-way conversation of a character
4. A comparison with 'like' or 'as'

What is a simile?

1. A direct comparison
2. Words starting with a similar sound
3. Rhyme scheme
4. A comparison with 'like' or 'as'

What is a personification?

1. A direct comparison
2. Linking two opposing ideas in one phrase
3. Giving objects and abstract ideas human characteristics
4. Words that imitate sounds

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. Onomatopoeia
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. Enjambment
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Assonance
4. Metaphor

The pattern of rhyming within a poem

1. Rhyme scheme
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Sonnet
4. Blank verse

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. Volta
4. Sonnet

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. Dramatic monologue

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

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

Linking two opposing ideas in one phrase

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Simile
3. Volta
4. Oxymoron