Poetic Devices and Sound Elements (Retake)

Which of the following is NOT an example of rhyme?

• I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

• And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot. He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not!"

• Then he shut up the things in a box with a hook. And the cat went away with a sad kind of look.

• And THEN! Who was back in the house? Why, the cat!

Dove = Peace would be an example of...

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• symbolism

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you

Till China and Africa meet,

And the river jumps over the mountain

And the salmon sings in the street,

I’ll love you till the ocean

is folded and hung up to dry.”

This example is the OPPOSITE of…

• Hyperbole

• Litotes

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

What poetic device does this excerpt contain?

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet.

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called…”

• symbol

• imagery

• metaphor

• analogy

What is the tone of the following text?

"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!"

• pleased

• angry

• happy

• suspicious

What is this example of?

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Pun

• Meter

The writer's attitude toward the subject or audience...

• □ rhythm

• □ theme

• □ tone

• □ stanza

“He had to fight for it tooth and nail.

He felt like a rag, so he called it a day.

Discovering the tiny blotch on her skin was like a blessing in disguise – they caught the cancer early!”

The following expressions are….

• □ Personifications

• □ Analogies

• □ Idioms

• □ Similes

“So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.”

The first line in this excerpt contains a/an _________________ to the Bible.

• □ metaphor

• □ allusion

• □ slant rhyme

• □ meter

What structure is poetry written in?

• □ Sentences & paragraphs

• □ Sentences & stanzas

• □ Lines & paragraphs

• □ Lines & stanzas