Poetry Literary Devices Quiz

What is the definition of alliteration?

What is the purpose of an elegy?

Which term refers to the repetition of similar vowel sounds in lines of poetry?

What does the term 'imagery' refer to in poetry?

What does apostrophe refer to in poetry?

What is the main characteristic of blank verse?

What literary device involves placing two or more things side by side, even though they usually aren't associated with each other?

Which literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas?

What is the term for a regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line, or lines of poetry?

Which literary device involves the repetition of grammatical structures to create rhythm and emphasis?

What is the term for the emotional environment of a poem, also called atmosphere?

Which literary device involves a comparison between two generally unlike quantities or things?

What literary device involves representing something abstract with something concrete?

What is the term for a poem in praise of something divine or expressing a noble idea?

Which literary device involves the sound of the word mimicking the sound to which it refers?

In what form does a character in a play or novel speak lines that are understood in a double sense by the audience, or an audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know?

Which literary device involves the inherent sweetness of sound?

What is the term for a story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung?

What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds?

What is the term for unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths that contain no specific metrical pattern?

What literary device involves language which makes use of certain devices called figures of speech?

What is the term for a reference to some well-known cultural or historical person, place, or event?

What is the term for a literary work that imitates the style of another literary work?

Which term refers to the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words in lines of poetry?

What literary device involves the use of a regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line or lines of poetry?

What is the term for a figure of speech that compares two generally unlike quantities or things using 'like' or 'as'?

What literary device involves placing two words with opposite meanings side by side?

Which term refers to the emotional environment of a poem, also called atmosphere?

What literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas?

'Imagery' in poetry refers to:

Which term refers to a part representing the whole?

What literary device involves repetition of grammatical structures to create rhythm and emphasis?