Poetic
Terms
Types of
Poems
Poems
Devices in
Poems
Sonnets
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Question 1 - 10
• When the speaker directly addresses an
absent person or object.
Answer 1 – 10
• Apostrophe
Question 1 - 20
• The repetition of a grammatical structure
• Ex: Like father, like son.
Answer 1 – 20
• Parallelism
Question 1 - 30
• The use of words that imitate sounds
Answer 1 – 30
• Onomatopoeia
Question 1 - 40
• A reference to a well-known person, place,
thing, or work
Answer 1 – 40
• Allusion
Question 1 - 50
• Descriptive language used to create pictures
for the reader
Answer 1 – 50
• Imagery
Question 2 - 10
• A poem written in this style does not rhyme
Answer 2 – 10
• Free verse
Question 2 - 20
• A line containing ten syllables
Answer 2 – 20
• Iambic pentameter
Question 2 - 30
• A five line poem that is meant to be humerous
Answer 2 – 30
• Limerick
Question 2 - 40
• A poem about something the speaker admires
Answer 2 – 40
• Ode
Question 2 - 50
• A poem that takes on the shape of its subject
matter
Answer 2 – 50
• Concrete poem
Question 3 - 10
• What is the condition of the father in “My
Papa’s Waltz?”
Answer 3 – 10
• Drunk
Question 3 - 20
• What is the theme of “The Road Not Taken?”
Answer 3 – 20
• Make your own choices
Question 3 - 30
• What conflict is present in “Not Waving but
Drowning?”
Answer 3 – 30
• Appearance vs. Reality
Question 3 - 40
• “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes
inspired the title for this piece of literature.
Answer 3 – 40
• A Raisin in the Sun
Question 3 - 50
• In “Annabel Lee”, who does the speaker blame
for his love’s death?
Answer 3 – 50
• Angels
Question 4 - 10
• What is the following line an example of?
• “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his
shade”
Answer 4 – 10
• Personification
Question 4 - 20
• What is being described in the following lines?
• I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
• An elephant, a ponderous house
Answer 4 – 20
• A pregnant woman
Question 4 - 30
• What poetic device, besides imagery, is
present in “The Dance?”
• In Breughel’s great picture, The Kermess,
• The dancers go round, they go round and
around
Answer 4 – 30
• Allusion
Question 4 - 40
• In the poem, “Dreams,” what poetic device is
evident in the line:
• “Life is a barren field”
Answer 4 – 40
• Metaphor
Question 4 - 50
• In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” what
do the two roads symbolize/represent?
Answer 4 – 50
• Choices or decisions
Question 5 - 10
• How many lines make up a quatrain
Answer 5 – 10
• 4
Question 5 - 20
• What are the last two lines of a sonnet called?
Answer 5 – 20
• Couplet
Question 5 - 30
• Label the rhyme scheme of all 14 lines
Answer 5 – 30
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Question 5 - 40
• How many quatrains make up a sonnet?
Answer 5 – 40
• 3
Question 5 - 50
• The lines of a sonnet are written in these lines,
made up of ten syllables each
Answer 5 – 50
• Iambic Pentameter