Poetry Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. You mark rhyme scheme using .....
2. This is a form of writing that uses not only words, but also form, patterns of sound, imagery, and figurative language to convey a message.
3. How long does the narrator sit with Porphyria's dead body?
4. The feeling the READER experiences when reading a poem
5. What is the answer to the question posed in "The Lamb?"
6. Which vehicle takes people to offices and shops?
7. Who is the narrator, or speaker, of "My Last Duchess" ?
8. A person, thing, or animal who plays a part in a story.
9. What is the comparison of two unlike things using "like" "as" or "than"
10. "I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling, I bear in the tide."
11. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. Is an example of .....
12. Which of the following is a subgenre of British poetry?
13. Which literary term means the attitude, or feeling, that the author has about the subject?
14. Restating something in your own words
15. What is ONE thing the poet says we should NOT do with a poem?
16. Read these lines from the beginning of the poem. A Bird came down the walk-He did not know I saw; He big an angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw Which lines end with words that rhyme?
17. 'There hung a darkness, call it solitude'
18. A reference to something famous or well-known is called a/an
19. A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon.
20. Shakespeare wrote ..... sonnets.
21. Making a comparison between two unlike things using "like, " "as, " or "than."
22. Words that rhyme inside the line. EX:I'm a CAT who wears a HAT.
23. ..... means special importance given to something.
24. The sections in poems are called
25. Everett held his father's hand as he crossed the busy parking lot. They walked into a grocery store. Everett's dad lifted him into the seat of the shopping cart. "Here, "said dad, "You can hold my shopping list." You can infer that
26. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. Is an example of .....
27. "You may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesYou may kill me with your hatefulness"
28. The imagery of the orange "making a fire in my hands" (final line) is
29. Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a character's personality to the reader.
30. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called a
31. Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose?
32. A word that sounds like the noise it describes
33. Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"
34. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem, written as letters.EX:ABAB CDCD
35. Describes something non-human with human qualities
36. What is it called when an object, animal or inanimate object is portrayed as having human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes?
37. In THE INCHCAPE ROCK, What makes Ralph the Rover regrets his action of stealing the bell?
38. What did a Roman patrician consider his best pursuit?
39. Who wrote 'Exposure'?
40. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definition.
41. What do we call t he main message an author hopes to convey?
42. To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics?
43. A group of words whose meaning is different from the actual (ordinary) meaning of the word is an ..... (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs."
44. Read the stanza from the poem.'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI rise I rise. "Why does she repeat "I rise?"
45. The example highlighted below is an example of?The black birddog boldly began to bark.
46. The second stripe of the rainbow is .....
47. 'The lone and level sands stretch far away'
48. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass;"
49. What does the P in TPFASTT stand for?
50. Which writer said, "The free bird thinks of another breeze."
51. 'To get out of that blue crackling airHis terror's touchy dynamite.'
52. Which of these is NOT figurative language?
53. The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.
54. Which type of poetry glorifies a person, place, thing, or idea?
55. Rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry.
56. Why did King Henry VIII separate from the Catholic Church?
57. Author's purpose means .....
58. During the Renaissance, what types of literature were people rediscovering an interest in?
59. The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
60. Compares two different things saying the one is the other ..... does not use like or as to compare