Poetic Devices
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- Q1How do we refer to the person whose voice is behind the poem?narratorspeakerpoetauthor30s
- Q2How do you know if a line of poetry has enjambment?a comma in the middle of the lineno punctuation at the end of the lineany punctuation mark at the end of the linea period at the end of the line30s
- Q3A stanza with four lines is a _______________.quatrainsestetquintetcouplet30s
- Q4An English sonnet's rhyme scheme is made up of:4 tercets and a couplet4 quatrains and a couplet7 coupletsan octave and a sestet30s
- Q5An Italian sonnet's rhyme scheme is made up of:ballad stanzas7 couplets4 quatrains and a coupletan octave and a sestet30s
- Q6The meter of most sonnets is:dactylic hexametertrochaic trimeteriambic pentameteranapestic tetrameter30s
- Q7What is a narrative poem?a poem that tells a storya poem that expresses a feelinga poem that only has one charactera poem that expresses an idea30s
- Q8What is NOT a characteristic of a ballad?lyric poemquatrainsstrong rhymesnarrative30s
- Q9What might a free verse poem have?a rhyme schemea narrativeiambic pentametera haiku structure30s
- Q10What is NOT a characteristic of an ode?elevated languagerhyming quatrainsthree stanzaspraise and glorification30s
- Q11What means the same thing as slant rhyme?internal rhymeapproximate rhymeend rhymeenjambment30s
- Q12Alliteration meanswords begin with the same consonant lettersame vowel sound in the middle of wordssame consonant sound at the beginnings of wordssame consonant sound in the middle of words30s
- Q13"Mouse" and "house" have:slant rhymehalf rhymeperfect rhymealliteration30s
- Q14Consonance meansimitation of a real soundsame consonant sound at the beginning of wordssame consonant sound in the middle or end of wordssame vowel sound at the beginning of words30s
- Q15"Might" and "Fate" have:alliterationrhymeconsonanceassonance30s