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Literary Devices (Poetry)
Literary Devices (Poetry)
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Literary devices: mainly those used in poetry though some are applicable to prose as well.
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Which of these is the correct stress pattern in trochaic meter?
Unstressed syllable, stressed syllable
Stressed syllable, unstressed syllable
Stressed syllable, stressed syllable
Unstressed syllable, unstressed syllable
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Which literary device has the following definition?
Apostrophe
Bathos
Antithesis
Allegory
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Understatement where a positive is stated by negating its opposite.
Metonymy
Dissonance
Synedoche
Litotes
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Figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole, or vice versa.
Euphony
Apostrophe
Synedoche
Dissonance
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Which of these devices is very similar to cacophony?
Assonance
Alliteration
Dissonance
Euphony
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Which literary device is demonstrated by the highlighted sections of the following extract?
Assonance
Alliteration
Anastrophe
Anaphora
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Which of these is a characteristic of a Shakespearean Sonnet?
14 stanzas
Rhyming couplet at the end
Trochaic pentameter
16 lines
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Which literary device describes the structure of the highlighted lines?
Internal rhyme
Enjambment
End-Stopped Line
Caesura
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A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet
Petrarchan Sonnet
Haiku
Limerick
Shakespearean Sonnet
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Imagery creating a vivid description of smell
Auditory imagery
Olfactory imagery
Tactile imagery
Visual imagery
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What is internal rhyme?
rhymes between stanzas
rhymes within a line of poetry
rhymes within a poem
rhymes within a stanza
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The use of a harmonious combination of words and sounds that is pleasant to hear/articulate.
Alliteration
Euphony
Cacophony
Dissonance
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Which literary device is employed in the following extract of a poem?
Apostrophe
Epigram
Synaesthesia
Elegy
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Which of these demonstrate allusion?
The city sleeps and the country sleeps
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
They promised opportunity and provided slavery
The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes
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Which literary device is employed in the highlighted section of the following extract?
Personification
Direct Address
Hyperbole
Euphemism
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What is a pararhyme?
Repetition of similar vowel sounds in two words
Rhyming words in the same line of a poem
Two words beginning with the same sound
Consonants in two words are identical but the vowels vary
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Which of these is the correct stress pattern for syllables in iambic meter?
Unstressed, unstressed
Unstressed, stressed
Stressed, unstressed
Stressed, stressed
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A break within a line of poetry, created by a comma, full stop, or a needed, unmarked pause.
Enjambment
Apostrophe
End-stopped line
Caesura
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Which literary device is used in the following quote?
Irony
Antithesis
Onomatopoeia
Personification
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Metonymy is...
using one kind of sensory experience to describe another
attributing human characteristics to animals, things, ideas
when a closely related idea replaces the idea itself
an conscious exaggeration
