Literary Devices
This is the word used for anaphora in the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
A) astronomer
B) When
C) heard
What is "When"?
This is a true statement about how poems are organized.
A) Written in paragraphs
B) Made up of lines
C) Must always rhyme
What is "Poems are made up of lines"?
This is another word for evident.
What is obvious?
Comparing a puppy to "a pair of untied shoes" using the word "as" is this.
What is a simile?
This is the correct way to unscramble:
by the the saved crow was day.
What is "The day was saved by the crow"?
This is what an author uses to show similarities and differences between scenes.
What is parallel structure?
This is a stanza that contains exactly four lines.
What is a quatrain?
This word describes a place that glows with eerie light and feels like it is from another world.
What is mystical?
Saying the wind "whispered secrets" is this type of language.
What is personification?
This is the correct way to unscramble:
interesting the more sky astronomer was the than.
What is "The sky was more interesting than the astronomer"?
This is the reference in "Constantly Risking Absurdity" that is an example of an allusion.
A) "a poet like an acrobat"
B) "a little charleychaplin man"
C) "he's the super realist"
What is "a little charleychaplin man"?
This type of poem is nineteen lines long and repeats lines in a specific pattern.
What is a villanelle?
This word means being held motionless by something amazing.
What is transfixed?
Saying "Her smile was sunshine" is this type of language.
What is a metaphor?
In the poem "This Is Just To Say," the word "because" is used for this specific reason.
What is to tell why the speaker eats the plums?
Anaphora is used in the astronomer poem to emphasize this.
A) the speaker heard and saw many things
B) details for visualization
C) comparing different sights
What is that the speaker heard and saw many different things?
This is the rhyme scheme used in the poem about the bird and the worm.
A Bird, came down the Walk-
He did not know I saw-
He bit an Angle worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw."
What is ABCB?
This is the correct word to use when you regret a decision.
What is rue?
This is the term for giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
Besides lines, this is another feature poems can have.
What is more than one stanza?
This is the primary reason an author uses an allusion in a poem.
What is to draw a connection?
This type of poem addresses someone or something that is not present.
What is an apostrophe?
In a recipe, this is what it means if the pepper is "ground".
What is made into tiny pieces?
In the poem "Advice," the comparison between handling worms and handling hurtful words is this.
A) Metaphor
B) Extended metaphor
C) Implied metaphor
What is an implied metaphor?
This is a specific type of tree someone might sit under to find comfort and read.
What is a copper beech?