Poetic Devices

What is the term for a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Stanza

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which poetic device involves almost all words starting with the same letter?

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Identify the term that describes a group of lines that make up a poem.

• Stanza

• Epistrophe

• Enjambment

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.7.6

What is the term for the pattern of beats or stresses in a poem or song?

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Allusion

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which poetic device is used when a sentence or phrase runs from one line to the next without a punctuation mark?

• Enjambment

• Alliteration

• Stanza

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following example to the correct poetic device: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Which term describes when the beginning of a line in a poem is repeated?

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Repetition

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Identify the poetic device in the following example: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is the term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a line in a poem?

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Allusion

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Which poetic device is being used in the following example: "To be, or not to be, that is the question."

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Enjambment

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4