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Poetry: Sound Devices Quiz

Test your knowledge on common sound techniques used in poetry.

  1. The line “Your songs that sound ground under some stud’s heel” makes use of

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  2. Assonance is

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  3. Dickinson’s line, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” makes use of which poetic technique?

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  4. Alliteration is

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  5. Wilfren Owen's line “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” provides multiple examples of which technique?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare