Poetic Devices - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

Hyberbole

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words?

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What creates a picture in the reader's mind?

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Imagery

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as?

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Rhyme

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

Simile

Rhyme

Stanza

Metaphor

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem.

Rhyme

Repitition

Rhyme Schemes

Stanza

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What are words that end in the same sound, end rhyme?

Rhyme Schemes

Stanza

Rhythm

Rhyme

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the pattern of rhymes?

Stanza

Repitition

Rhyme Schemes

Theme

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the message about life that the poem conveys?

Theme

Tone

Stanza

Rhythm

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.

Lines

Stanza

Sound

Triplet

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The poet uses rhyme, rhythm, and/or repetition to help the listener to hear the poem.

Form

Speaker

Sound

Lines

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What are phrases or words in a stanza?

Couplet

Quadrin

Form

Lines

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What a poem looks like.

Form

Quadrin

Couplet

Triplet

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is language employing one or more figures of speech? (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc.)

Blank Verse Poems

Figurative Language

Near Rhyme

Internal Rhyme

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the author of the poem?

poet

writer

author

speaker

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who is the narrator of the poem?

Poet

Writer

Author

Speaker

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a 2-lined stanza?

quadrain

Triplet

Couplet

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form, usually lines and stanzas?

Couplet

Onomatopoeia

Poetry

Figurative Language

19.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a 3-lined stanza?

Couplet

Triplet

Quadrin

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a 4-lined stanza?

Quadrin

Couplet

Triplet

21.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line?

near rhyme

internal rhyme

blank verse poems

22.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a imperfect or close rhyme?

Internal rhyme

Blank verse poems

Near Ryhme

23.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a type of poem written in lines and stanzas but doe not use rhyme

Symbolism

Idiom

Blank verse poems

24.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression; it means something other than what it actually says

Idiom

Rhyme

Symbolism

25.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself also represents , or stands for, something else

Symbolism

Rhyme

Rhyme Schemes

26.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

rhyme schemes

rhyme

repetition

meter

27.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The attitude or mood the author creates.

Tone

Theme

Mood

28.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a 3-lined Japanese poem that has a total of 17 syllables; 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables - usually about nature?

Haiku

Poem

Stanza

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