Poetry & Literary Devices 2016

Two lines of a verse that rhyme are known as...

• Couplet
• Rhythm
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art or literature is known as....

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Dissonance 
• Pathetic Fallacy 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An allusion is....

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Giving human like characteristics or traits to non-human things
• A reference to a popular/important thing
• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or a verse.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An exaggeration in poetry/literature is known as a....

• Exaggeration!
• Assonance 
• Hyperbole 
• Enjambment    

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end or a line, couplet, or stanza...

• Apostrophe
• Enjambment
• Stanza
• Rhyme Scheme 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A  Haiku has a total of _____ lines. 

• 3
• 5
• 17
• 7

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

Soft, smooth, snow falls silently from the sky is an example of which literary device?

• Personification
• Caesura
• Alliteration
• Iambic Pentameter

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A pause or break in poetry to create rhythm. 

• Diction
• Onomatopoeia 
• Iambic Pentameter
• Caesura 

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning

• Anaphora 
• Alliteration 
• Iambic Pentameter
• Simile 

Comparing things using like or as

• Personification
• Simile 
• Diction
• Metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4