Poetic Devices 101
'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers' is an example of this
What is alliteration?
Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about a black bird
What is 'The Raven'?
The number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14?
The Divine Comedy is the best known work of this Italian poet
Who is Dante?
The classic novel that features characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy
What is Pride and Prejudice
'Time is a thief' is an example of this
The poem that features in S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders
What is 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'?
Type of poetry that does not have a particular metre or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
The American poet known for his collection Leaves of Grass
Who is Walt Whitman?
The fictional city in The Great Gatsby
What is West Egg?
'Boom boom boom clap' is an example of this
What is onomatopoeia?
'Late August, given heavy rain and sun' is the opening line of this Heaney poem
What is 'Blackberry Picking'?
A pair of rhyming lines, which are usually the same length and have the same metre
The most famous Welsh poet whose name features in Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poet's Department'
Who is Dylan Thomas?
The author of The Catcher in the Rye
Who is J.D. Salinger?
'I've told you a million times' is an example of this
What is hyperbole?
'I will arise and go now' is the opening line of this well-known Yeats poem
What is 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'?
A long narrative poem usually focusing on heroism
What is an epic?
'Ode to a Nightingale' is a famous poem written by this English Romantic poet
Who is John Keats?
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
'Go slow over the road' is an example of this
What is assonance?
Allen Ginsberg's most famous poem capturing the disillusionment and social pressures of the 1950s in America
What is Howl?
A French poetic form made up of nineteen lines grouped into six separate stanzas and featuring lots of repitition
What is a villanelle?
Considered the greatest poet of the English language
Who is William Shakespeare?
The opening line of 'A Tale of Two Cities'
What is 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'