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Poetic Devices
Poets
Poetic Devices
The Raven
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two unlike things using like or as
Simile
100
This poet wrote "The Raven" and the "Tell-Tale Heart."
Edgar Allan Poe
100
Repeating words, lines, or phrases throughout a poem.
Repetition
100
The word that the raven repeats throughout the poem.
Nevermore.
100
"BANG!" "CRACK!" "SPLAT!" Are examples of which poetic device?
Onomatopoeia
200
"The friendly frog fixed the pheasant's feathers" is an example of which poetic device?
Alliteration
200
This poet is famous for writing books of poetry for children.
Shel Silverstein
200
A rhyme that occurs between two words within a line of a poem
What is internal rhyme
200
The name of the woman that the narrator is longing for.
Lenore
200
This poet is an African American poet who wrote many poems about strong women
Maya Angelou
300
Words that imitate sounds
What is Onomatopoeia
300
This poet ate raw eggs for breakfast every day
Walt Whitman
300
Gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification
300
What is the setting of the poem?
The narrator's bedroom
300
Which month is Poetry Month?
April
400
Lines ending in words with the same sound
Rhyme
400
This poet wrote the book The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
400
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as.
What is metaphor
400
In the poem, the raven most likely represents...
Sorrow, death, loss
400
Name one of the poets a day who is still alive today
Maya Angelou or Mary Oliver
500
The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables
Assonance
500
This poet was a famous poet from Maine
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
500
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the end of words.
Consonace
500
At the end of the poem, the raven does what?
It never leaves. It stays on the statue head above the narrator's door.
500
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" is the first line of a poem written by which poet?
Robert Frost