Poetry Lines
Examples of Poetic Devices
Who Wrote That?
Exam Terms
Language Skills
100
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
What is Sonnet 130?
100
The eagle grasped the crooked crags.
What is alliteration?
100
Wrote 154 sonnets some to a dark lady.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
Anarchy rules!
What is oxymoron?
100
Must have a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
200
I am the King of Kings.
What is Ozymandias?
200
My love is like a red, red rose.
What is a simile?
200
Wrote about a man finding out his son is now a thief.
Who is Raymond Souster?
200
Vocabulary for a specific group or profession.
What is jargon?
200
Another name for a dependant clause.
What is a subordinate clause?
300
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
What is The Second Coming?
300
Her eyes were darting searchlights, scanning the room for her rival.
What is a metaphor?
300
Leaders who rule with arrogance and self-centered righteousnes.
Who is Mrs. Dolcetti?
300
Placing two things side by side to compare or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
300
The pronoun case used before a gerund.
What is possessive?
400
She smuggled bruises like cigarettes.
What is Boyfriend's Car?
400
I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valleys up.
What is personification?
400
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
400
A rhetorical device using emotion to elicit a response.
What is pathos?
400
What is wrong with "Sam give Mark a ride when he was finished work."
What is vague pronoun reference?
500
"They would sit quietly as something dense and radiant swirled around them."
What is The Dumka?
500
Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll. (Not alliteration, personification or assonance.)
What is apostrophe?
500
Hated it when a student asked if he missed anything.
Who is Tom Wayman?
500
A long speech spoken on stage alone.
What is soliloquy?
500
The problem with this sentence. "If anyone missed this jeopardy game they will not do well on the quiz after Christmas."
What is pronoun agreement with antecedent?
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