Poetic Terms and Meanings Quiz

What literary device is used when a story, poem, or picture can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one?

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What literary device is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What literary device is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What literary device is the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Assonance

What literary device is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Assonance

What literary device is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Assonance

What literary device is a poem or song that tells a story in short stanzas?

• Ballad

• Cacophony

• Connotation

What literary device is a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds?

• Ballad

• Cacophony

• Connotation

What literary device is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning?

• Ballad

• Cacophony

• Connotation

What literary device is the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words?

• Consonance

• Diction

• Enjambment