Poetry Literary Devices Jan 16 Quiz

Question 1

In medias res

Answer 1

a story that begins partway through its plot

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines

Question 3

Asyndeton

Answer 3

a sentence or group of words without the use of conjunctions (like and)

Question 4

Caesura

Answer 4

A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary (like -)

Question 5

End-stopped line

Answer 5

a pause at the end of a poetic line (or like the last line)

Question 6

Enjambment

Answer 6

a run on line in a poem

Question 7

Enumeration

Answer 7

list of items, events, ideas (all grouped together)

Question 8

Internal rhyme

Answer 8

rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line

Question 9

Hypophora

Answer 9

stating a rhetorical question and then answering it

Question 10

Juxtaposition

Answer 10

placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences