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Poetry Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"But he grew old-This knight so bold-"
2. What type of figurative language is shown?D arcy d aringly d ove d own the d eep d itch.
3. "Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags."
4. Which is not one of the characteristics of a sonnet?
5. The weather in gothic literature usually consists of .....
6. In A POISON TREE, What happen when the persona does not tell his anger to his foe?
7. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies."
8. What idea does Collins express with this simile:or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
9. In poetry, what is the name of one line in the poem?
10. Refers to the voice that speaks the poem and is NOT usually the actual author of the poem; also known as PERSONAL, which is Latin for mask
11. The genre of literature that is made up of lines and stanzas
12. "Andy always eats apples and asparagus" is an example of which type of figurative language?
13. A ..... is a grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a line of space.
14. Which two authors claim their poem will make their love live forever?
15. The first stipe of the rainbow is .....
16. How the reader feels about the story/poem
17. The Roman poet most well known for his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend, Lesbia, was .....
18. Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
19. The example highlighted below is an example of?The leaves danced in the wind.
20. In Canterbury Tales, at the beginning the pilgrims meet
21. A paragraph in poetry, surrounded abouve and below by skipped lines.
22. What part of Porphyria's body is the narrator seemingly obsessed with?
23. "Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard." What word has the same meaning as haughtiness is used in this stanza?
24. What idea is the speaker emphasizing? "I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore."
25. Which of the following words means 'scared'?
26. What is a contrast or opposition between two things?
27. Choose the rhyming word for 'stronger'
28. The following stanza emphasizes" The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives."
29. In a poem, the narrative voice is referred to as the
30. What is the occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
31. In "Introduction to Poetry" the poet uses similes and metaphors that
32. Pairs of lines in a poem are called .....
33. In THE QUARREL, what is the tone used by the poet in this poem?
34. Lines in poetry means
35. What is the poetic element when a poem gives a nonhuman thing human traits
36. Where a character says the opposite of what they mean.
37. During the Middle Ages, who were books and stories primarily written for and read by?
38. The mouse was afraid of .....
39. What word, derived from Greek, is used to describe writing, like Vergil's in the Georgics, whose purpose is to teach the reader?
40. What is an intermission for?
41. Repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds
42. Moving from observations about particular things to generalizations.
43. The new idea paraded around in the girl's mind; she was unable to stop thinking about it.
44. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, " the speaker
45. The example highlighted below is an example of?Her hair is a shimmering waterfall.
46. The following line conveys which sound device?"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary"
47. The Swing-Robert Louis StevensonHow do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside-Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown-Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!How does the author feel about swinging? Use details from the text to answer this question.
48. Uncle Eric:She is quite a pitcher, isn't she?
49. When the bus came, I got on, carrying my pink backpack. It was the first day of school, and I was nervous. I smiled, though, when I saw my best friend Kevin sitting in the back. What type of point of view is the paragraph above?
50. What is the speaker's tone in "The Nymph's Reply to the Sheperd?"
51. What was NOT a typical genre of Anglo-Saxon literature?
52. Words that rhyme at the end of the line.EX:Yes it's true, I'm a CAT.When I go out, I wear a HAT.
53. What is language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
54. Exaggeration, overstatement
55. In "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning, " the speaker compares his love to
56. A combination of meaning and sounds arranged in an interesting form
57. Comparison between two subjects that does NOT use like or as
58. The Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet has
59. Fionna is good at sports, earns high grades in school, has a lot of friends, and is also an amazing artist. Her friends tell her she has the "Midas Touch." What does it mean that Fionna has the Midas Touch?
60. This is another word for lines in a poem.
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