Poetry Literary Devices Quiz
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What is the definition of alliteration?

  • The neighboring words begin with the same letter or sound (correct)
  • The harsh, discordant sound
  • A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung
  • A reference to some well known cultural or historical person, place, or event

    • What is the purpose of an elegy?

  • To address something animate or inanimate as an audience for one's innermost thoughts and feelings
  • A lyric poem lamenting death (correct)
  • Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying length
  • The inherent sweetness of the sound

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

  • Repetition of consonant sounds
  • A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs
  • The close repetition of similar vowel sounds in lines of poetry (correct)
  • A brief poem praising a deceased person

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

    <p>Poetic pictures created with the five senses and figurative language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does apostrophe refer to in poetry?

    <p>To address something animate or inanimate as an audience for one's innermost thoughts and feelings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main characteristic of blank verse?

    <p>Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths that contain no specific metrical pattern</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Juxtaposition</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Personification</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Meter</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Parallel structure</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Mood</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Simile</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What literary device involves representing something abstract with something concrete?

    <p>Symbolism</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Ode</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Onomatopoeia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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?

    <p>Irony</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which literary device involves the inherent sweetness of sound?

    <p>Euphony</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Ballad</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds?

    <p>Consonance</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Free Verse</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Figurative language</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Allusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Parody</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Alliteration</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Meter</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Simile</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Oxymoron</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Mood</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>'Personification'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Imagery' in poetry refers to:

    <p>'The use of vivid language to create sensory experiences.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term refers to a part representing the whole?

    <p>Synecdoche</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Parallel structure</p> Signup and view all the answers

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