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Poetry Devices Quiz


Choose the best single answer from the right-hand column that matches with the word in the left-hand
column. Write the letter on the line in front of the number.

_____1) alliteration a) lesson or message about life in a literary work

_____2) onomatopoeia b) When we part


It breaks my heart.
_____3) rhyme
c) language that appeals smell, taste,
_____4) theme touch, vision, hearing

_____5) rhyme scheme d) a reference to a famous


person/place/thing

_____6) couplet e) time, fine, line, dine

_____7) repetition f) one line of a poem that contains 5


feet, ten syllables, starting with
_____8) simile an unstressed followed by a
stressed syllable
_____9) stanza
g) I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
_____10) symbol
h) pattern of rhyme
_____11) imagery
i) narrator of a poem (not to be confused
_____12) paradox with the author)

_____13) meter j) abab,cdcd,efef,gg

_____14) metaphor k) a country’s flag

_____15) hyperbole l) rhythm of words in a poem

_____16) personification m) group of lines in a poem that hang


together
_____17) iambic pentameter
n) “I am not I”
_____18) speaker
o) harsh-sounding words
_____19) oxymoron
p) “Love is a door we shall open
together.”
_____20) allusion
q) a refrain/chorus in a song or poem
_____21) tone
r) pleasant-sounding words

_____22) irony s) zoom, zoom, zoom/crash, bang

_____23) sonnet t) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

_____24) cacophony u) author’s attitude toward the subject

_____25) euphony v) I’m as hungry as a horse.

w)The sun smiled at Earth.

x) an unexpected occurrence in a text

y) silent scream
ANSWER KEY
1. T
2. S
3. E
4. A
5. J
6. B
7. Q
8. V
9. M
10. K
11. C
12. N
13. L
14. P
15. G
16. W
17. F
18. I
19. Y
20. D
21. U
22. X
23. J
24. O
25. R

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