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Literary Terms: Poetic Devices
Literary Terms: Poetic Devices
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A review of literary terms for English
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What is it called when an author describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person?
Personification
Verse
Antithesis
Imagery
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What is a sudden pause or break in poetry called?
Enjambment
Stanza
Repetition
Caesura
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What is a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains?
Imagery
Stanza
Lyric
Verse
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What is a foot that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable called?
Trochaic
Refrain
Iambic
Onomatopoeia
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What is a form of Japanese poetry that has 3 lines with 5/7/5 syllables?
Assonance
Couplet
Haiku
Consonance
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What is the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning called?
Metaphor
Blank verse
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
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What is the order, or free occurrences of sound in poetry called?
Enjambment
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Rhythm
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What is the repetition of vowel sounds called, such as "my words like silent raindrops fell"?
Assonance
Consonance
Foot
Heroic Couplet
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What is a two line stanza called?
Sestet
Triplet
Couplet
Quatrain
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What is a poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter called?
Hyperbole
Ballad
Sonnet
Lyric
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What is the main division of a long poem?
Haiku
Meter
Couplet
Canto
12
What poetic device has the initial repetition of consonant sounds, such as 'green grass grows'?
Alliteration
Ballad
Lyric
End rhyme
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What is the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words?
Sonnet
Imagery
Rhyme
Pentameter
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What is a poem that tells a story?
Haiku
Lyric
Ballad
Blank verse
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What is an exaggeration or overstatement in literature called?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile