Poetic Device Quiz - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"
"Baby, Baby, Baby, oh"

couplet

rhyme scheme

simile

repetition

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The words that repeat some sounds but are not an exact echo (also known as slant rhyme) are

rhyme scheme

alliteration

approximate rhyme

stanza

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
The rock stubbornly refused to move.

simile

personification

onomatopoeia

None of the above

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?

Buzz, clang, zip, pow

onomatopoeia

synecdoche

imagery

free verse

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrate below?
A mountain of baby carrots,
a turkey the size of a cow.
a river full of gravy
and gallons full of ice cream.

quatrain

hyperbole

approximate rhyme

exact rhyme

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
She stood in the front of the alter shaking like a freshly caught trout.

imagery

metaphor

simile

exact rhyme

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
A green plan is a machine that runs on solar energy.

simile

metaphor

free verse

personification

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
Life is a roller coaster.
It has its ups and downs.
Sometimes the ride is fun.
Other times the ride has been scary.

simile

extended metaphor

cinquain

hyperbole

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Two lines of poetry that rhyme is called a

metaphor

quatrain

free verse

couplet

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Descriptive language that paints a picture for the reader is called

personification

alliteration

imagery

onomatopoeia

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Words that are an exact echo of one another are called

exact rhyme

free verse

approximate rhyme

internal rhyme

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A four line stanza is called a

extended metaphor

exact rhyme

couplet

quatrain

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent a whole is called a

stanza

synecdoche

personification

free verse

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The structure of a poem in which lines are arranged in a certain way is the

metaphor

stanza

synecdoche

quatrain

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A style of poetry that does not rhyme is called

quatrain

exact rhyme

free verse

metaphor

16.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:
Sometimes I'm cold.
Sometimes I'm hot.
Sometimes I'm old.
Sometimes I'm not.

ABCC

ABAA

ABAB

AABB

17.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is the simile in passage?
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

on your breath

But I hung on like death

Could make a small boy dizzy

such waltzing was not easy

18.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
Willie was a man without fame.
He hardly knew anybody's name.

couplet

free verse

metaphor

quatrain

19.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

hyperbole

personification

approximate rhyme

all of the above

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

Assonance

Alliteration

Internal Rhyme

None of the above

21.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
What's all the warring and jarring
And the killing and thrilling...

metaphor

rhyme scheme

internal rhyme

ononmatopoeia

22.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The literal dictionary definition of a word is the ____________.

Denotation

Meaning

Connotation

syntax

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