Name_____________________________________________________________Period______
Poetry Devices Quiz
Choose the best single answer from the right-hand column that matches with the word in the left-hand
column. Write the letter on the line in front of the number.
_____1) alliteration
a) lesson or message about life in a literary work
_____2) onomatopoeia
b) When we part
It breaks my heart.
_____3) rhyme
_____4) theme
c) language that appeals smell, taste,
touch, vision, hearing
_____5) rhyme scheme
d) a reference to a famous
person/place/thing
_____6) couplet
e) time, fine, line, dine
_____7) repetition
f) one line of a poem that contains 5
feet, ten syllables, starting with
an unstressed followed by a
stressed syllable
_____8) simile
_____9) stanza
g) I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
_____10) symbol
h) pattern of rhyme
_____11) imagery
_____12) paradox
i) narrator of a poem (not to be confused
with the author)
_____13) meter
j) abab,cdcd,efef,gg
_____14) metaphor
k) a country’s flag
_____15) hyperbole
l) rhythm of words in a poem
_____16) personification
m) group of lines in a poem that hang
together
_____17) iambic pentameter
n) “I am not I”
_____18) speaker
o) harsh-sounding words
_____19) oxymoron
p) “Love is a door we shall open
together.”
_____20) allusion
q) a refrain/chorus in a song or poem
_____21) tone
r) pleasant-sounding words
_____22) irony
s) zoom, zoom, zoom/crash, bang
_____23) sonnet
t) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
_____24) cacophony
u) author’s attitude toward the subject
_____25) euphony
v) I’m as hungry as a horse.
w)The sun smiled at Earth.
x) an unexpected occurrence in a text
y) silent scream
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