Poetry Terms

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

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

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

• A) Metonymy

• B) Synecdoche

• C) Metaphor

• D) Personification

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

• A) Assonance

• B) Consonance

• C) Alliteration

• D) Enjambment

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

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

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

What term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?

• A) Anaphora

• B) Epistrophe

• C) Epanalepsis

• D) Antimetabole

Match the poetry meter with the definitions

• first syllable unaccented and the second accented

  duh DUH

• Dactyl

• first two syllables unaccented and the third syllable accented

  duh duh DUH

• Iamb

• first syllable accented and the second unaccented

  DUH duh

• Spondee

• two-syllable rhyming pattern, but both are stressed

  DUH DUH

• Trochee

• first syllable accented and the second and third unaccented

  DUH duh duh

• Anapest

What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue?

• A) Sonnet

• B) Haiku

• C) Epic

• D) Ghazal