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 (C)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Personification (B)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

<p>Mood (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Simile (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What literary device involves representing something abstract with something concrete?

<p>Symbolism (B)</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 (A)</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 (D)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which literary device involves the inherent sweetness of sound?

<p>Euphony (D)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds?

<p>Consonance (A)</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 (B)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (B)</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 (B)</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 (A)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Oxymoron (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Mood (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

'Imagery' in poetry refers to:

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

Which term refers to a part representing the whole?

<p>Synecdoche (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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