Literary Elements / Poetic Devices

Question 1

__________ are techniques that writers use to express their ideas and enhance their writing. _________ highlight important concepts in a text, strengthen the narrative, and help readers connect to the characters and themes.

Answer 1

Literary Devices

Question 2

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement

Answer 2

Plot Structure

Question 3

The _______ between characters will cause multiple emotions throughout the story. … It builds suspense at the of the story. ______ is important because when you have it, it shows the character’s personality, emotions, and actions.

Answer 3

Dialogue

Question 4

The poets often use _______ to create rhythm in their works. If they use it throughout the entire poem, then it creates a beautiful ______ pattern, giving musical quality to the poem, because it adds flow in a perfect rhythmic way. It serves as a strong mnemonic device that facilitates memorization.

Answer 4

Rhyme

Question 5

Writers and poets use ______________ to build imagery and give words more power. Simile, metaphor and a host of other non-literal methods of expression help make foreign concepts familiar and graspable.

Answer 5

Figurative Language

Question 6

_______ sets poetry apart from normal speech; it creates a tone for the poem, and it can generate emotions or enhance ideas. It’s important to pay attention to _______ because it’s key to understanding the full effect of a poem. The stressed and unstressed syllables also add to the meaning via tone.

Answer 6

Rhythm

Question 7

_________ provide poets with a way of visually grouping together the ideas in a poem, and of putting space between separate ideas or parts of a poem. ________ also help break the poem down into smaller units that are easy to read and understand.

Answer 7

Stanzas

Question 8

________ gives off the sense of a higher interpretation, one that lets you have more wiggle room to come up with your own meaning. The authors may have done this to let the reader connect their own experiences to the poems.

Answer 8

Free verse structure

Question 9

__________—sometimes also called ‘shape poetry’—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. The words form shapes which illustrate the poem’s subject as a picture, as well as through their literal meaning.

Answer 9

Concrete Poetry