Poetry Terms
Literary Devices
Larger Meaning
100

What rhyme scheme is being used?

What is fixed end rhyme scheme?

100

What symbolism is utilized for the speaker's desire?

What is Bright Star?

100

What theme is the speaker trying to convey?

What is the beauty of nature, its creation and love?

200

What type of poem is Bright Star?

What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?

200

What literary device is used in: "Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art"

What is simile?

200
What about the stars does the speaker dislike?

What is being removed from humanity?

300

What type of poetic device is used in:
"Bright star, would I were as stedfast as thou art"

What is an apostrophe: Speaker breaks off to address a dead, absent or imaginary person or inanimate object (Star)?

300

What type of literary device is "And watching, with eternal lids apart"?

What is personification?

300

Where is the "turn" or Volta in the Sonnet?

What is line 9: "Noーyet still stedfast, still changeable"?