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Poetry Terms

Authored by Karen Wood

English

11th Grade

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Poetry Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable?

A) Trochee

B) Spondee

C) Anapest

D) Dactyl

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."?

A) Anaphora

B) Epistrophe

C) Epanalepsis

D) Antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword"

A) Metonymy

B) Synecdoche

C) Metaphor

D) Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"?

A) Assonance

B) Consonance

C) Alliteration

D) Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term refers to the use of two or more simultaneous but independent rhythms in a line of poetry?

A) Prosody

B) Enjambment

C) Synecdoche

D) Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "all hands on deck" or "wheels" meaning a car?

A) Metonymy

B) Synecdoche

C) Metaphor

D) Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds are the same but the consonant sounds that follow them are different?

A) Assonance

B) Consonance

C) Eye rhyme

D) Internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

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