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Review Poetry Terms and Literary Devices
By Stacy Shube
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A STANZA in poetry is most closely related to what in prose?
An essay
A thesis statement
A paragraph
A work cited page
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Multiple Choice
The line "I saw it there, but saw nothing in it, except the rising of the boiling bubble" is an example of which literary/poetic device?
allusion
rhyme
parallel structure
alliteration
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Parallels structure occurs when
a writer gets lazy and keeps repeating him/herself.
mathematical concepts line up with literary concepts.
the same pattern of words connect ideas to each other.
writers use synonyms to avoid repeating the same words over and over again.
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Multiple Choice
This stanza from Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" illustrates what poetic device?
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Allusion
Paradox
Imagery
Simile
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Multiple Choice
Metaphors involve
using language that appeals to the senses.
comparing two unlike things without a comparative word like "like" or "as."
using a part to represent a whole.
animals, ideas, and objects are given human characteristics.
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Multiple Choice
The poems "Dreams" by Langston Hughes demonstrates an obvious example of
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
symbolism
alliteration
allusion
personification
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Multiple Choice
In Emily Dickinson's poem "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" she makes obvious use of what literary/poetic device?
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -
oxymoron
parallel stucture
imagery
allusion
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of synecdoche?
"As American as apple pie"
"My love is a red, red rose."
"It was a Herculean task."
"Check out my new wheels."
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Multiple Choice
Connotation and denotation are most closely aligned with what literary term/poetic device?
Diction
Rhyme
Simile
Paradox
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