Grade 8 · English language arts
This quiz helps revise “Poetry and poetic devices” in English language arts for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Figurative Language, Sound and Rhythm, Lines and Stanzas, Poetic Forms, Meaning and Voice. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
In “The lake shone like a mirror,” what device compares the lake with a mirror using “like”?
In “The city is a sleeping giant,” what device directly compares the city to a giant?
In “The angry wind…
In the gameIn “I waited a…
In the gameA poem calls a…
In the gameIf two line-ending words share matching sounds, what sound device links them?
In “wild winds whistle,” what device repeats the initial consonant sound?
Words such as “buzz,”…
In the gameIn “slow road home,”…
In the gameWhich five-foot pattern uses…
In the gameWhat do we call a group of lines set apart from other groups in a poem?
What do we call two successive lines of poetry, often rhymed?
What do we call…
In the gameWhen a sentence continues…
In the gameWhat term means a…
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Which Japanese form is traditionally taught as three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern?
Shakespeare is famous for writing which 14-line poetic form?
Walt Whitman helped pioneer…
In the gameWhich poetic form expresses…
In the gameWhich fixed form has…
In the gameWhat term names the voice heard in a poem, which may be different from the poet?
What term means language that creates sensory experience through sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch?
A white dove can…
In the gameWhat term means a…
In the gameWhat figure is a…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.