Poetic Devices Practice

Poetry free of regular rhyme or rhyme patterns

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• personification

• form

Referring to a well-known work, such as the Bible or Shakespeare

• allusion

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Which of the following is an example of consonance?

• When Billie looked at the trailer, she smiled and laughed.

• Splash!

• The wind howled in the night.

• He is as strong as an ox.

What is the correct definition of Slant Rhyme?

• a type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds.

• two successive rhyming lines in a verse

• poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

• the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning:

Which is an example of elision?

• Sheep should sleep in a shed.

• "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills."

• She was a little tense

  The notice made no sense

• The lady's outfit was very interesting.

What type of figurative language is being used? The lightning danced across the sky while the rain poured.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

What poetic device is used in this verse?

"You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.

• Couplet

• Personification

• Simile

• Onamontapeia

Which is the correct definition of rhythm?

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

• poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

• a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse.

HYPERBOLE

• A comparison that is made directly

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• A comparison made with “as,” “like,” or “than.”

• the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

PERSONIFICATION

• The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line.

• the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

• Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect.

• A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.