32 Questions
What is the definition of alliteration?
The neighboring words begin with the same letter or sound
What is the purpose of an elegy?
A lyric poem lamenting death
Which term refers to the repetition of similar vowel sounds in lines of poetry?
The close repetition of similar vowel sounds in lines of poetry
What does the term 'imagery' refer to in poetry?
Poetic pictures created with the five senses and figurative language
What does apostrophe refer to in poetry?
To address something animate or inanimate as an audience for one's innermost thoughts and feelings
What is the main characteristic of blank verse?
Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths that contain no specific metrical pattern
What literary device involves placing two or more things side by side, even though they usually aren't associated with each other?
Juxtaposition
Which literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas?
Personification
What is the term for a regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line, or lines of poetry?
Meter
Which literary device involves the repetition of grammatical structures to create rhythm and emphasis?
Parallel structure
What is the term for the emotional environment of a poem, also called atmosphere?
Mood
Which literary device involves a comparison between two generally unlike quantities or things?
Simile
What literary device involves representing something abstract with something concrete?
Symbolism
What is the term for a poem in praise of something divine or expressing a noble idea?
Ode
Which literary device involves the sound of the word mimicking the sound to which it refers?
Onomatopoeia
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?
Irony
Which literary device involves the inherent sweetness of sound?
Euphony
What is the term for a story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung?
Ballad
What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds?
Consonance
What is the term for unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths that contain no specific metrical pattern?
Free Verse
What literary device involves language which makes use of certain devices called figures of speech?
Figurative language
What is the term for a reference to some well-known cultural or historical person, place, or event?
Allusion
What is the term for a literary work that imitates the style of another literary work?
Parody
Which term refers to the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words in lines of poetry?
Alliteration
What literary device involves the use of a regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line or lines of poetry?
Meter
What is the term for a figure of speech that compares two generally unlike quantities or things using 'like' or 'as'?
Simile
What literary device involves placing two words with opposite meanings side by side?
Oxymoron
Which term refers to the emotional environment of a poem, also called atmosphere?
Mood
What literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas?
'Personification'
'Imagery' in poetry refers to:
'The use of vivid language to create sensory experiences.'
Which term refers to a part representing the whole?
Synecdoche
What literary device involves repetition of grammatical structures to create rhythm and emphasis?
Parallel structure
Test your knowledge of literary devices commonly used in poetry with this quiz. Identify and understand the concepts of alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, and cacophony.
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