Poetry Quiz 9 (60 MCQs)

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1. The most widely-read literature prior to the Renaissance was
2. This era focused mostly on
3. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.
4. Comparison of two unlike things through multiple sentences
5. Which vehicle has three wheels?
6. A symbolic story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a particular hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
7. Soft, smooth, snow falls silently from the sky is an example of which literary device?
8. Which vehicle has four wheels?
9. Romance sonnets were mostly about
10. Gives human qualities to nonhuman or non-living subjects
11. Poetry that does not have a rhythm or rhyme scheme.
12. In "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, " the speaker
13. Which word list has examples of assonance?
14. The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
15. What is a prop in a play?
16. Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is the effect of the allusion to the Garden of Eden*?
17. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most of the characters are doing, thinking, or feeling?
18. Jason and Daniel are looking forward to the upcoming basketball season. Last year, their team had a lot of great players, but defense was their Achilles' heel. What does the phrase "Achilles heel" allude to?
19. Repetition of a VOWEL sound in non-rhyming words used close to one another
20. What is this?"bandage up me eye with me own history"
21. Which author wrote The Lamb?
22. Read the following lines from the third and fourth stanzas of the poem. He stirred his velvet head-Like one in danger; cautious What does the word "stirred" mean as used in these lines?
23. Central idea or universal statement of a work of literature
24. An overused expression
25. An Italian sonnet has..
26. What can animals represent in poetry?
27. ..... is a form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, sound, or structure to express something in an artistic way.
28. What is the below example known as?Example:'I saw the man walking fora long time and he didn't stopfor many years.'
29. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?My father is a bear in the morning.
30. A poem that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about a single image, emotion, or idea
31. A metaphysical conceit is
32. A musical quality based on repetition
33. "The beautiful, blue, bright flowers grew in the garden" shows which term?
34. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story and the reader knows the thoughts of only one character?
35. Choose the correct element.Hahahahahahaha
36. "The storm screamed in the night" is an example of:
37. How the speaker feels (their attitude)
38. Which sentence from the selection best appeals to the reader's sense of sight.
39. The running over of a sentence or thought from one line of poetry to another.
40. ..... is any literature that is not poetry, such as short stories, essays, novels, etc.
41. Comparing love to "a stiff twin compass" is an example of
42. A poem that is meant to be sung; tells a story (often sad); refrains; simple rhyme scheme and regular meters
43. What type of figurative language is shown?I have a million chores to do tonight!
44. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is a character inside the story?
45. Not literal language-not to be taken seriously
46. The message about life or life lesson that the poem or story shows is:(Ex:Love conquers all.)
47. A form of Japanese poetry that has three lines; the subject has traditionally been nature.
48. Imagery appeals to the .....
49. What is this?"My city takes me dancing"
50. How does the narrator describe the effects of loving Porphyria on him?
51. The R iver r uns r apidly is what type of poetry term?
52. Who fell down and hurt his knee in the poem "A Good Play" ?
53. This stanza helps readers imagine the trees by appealing to "The willow's music is like a soprano, Delicate and thin. The ginkgo's tune is like a chorus, With everyone joining in."
54. What feature of "A Bird Came Down the Walk" tells the reader that it is a poem?
55. Which type of figurative language is represented in the following line:"Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?"
56. Which of these poets that we've read wrote during the Harlem Renaissance?
57. Life is a roller coaster. Is an example of ..
58. Choose the correct element. Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
59. What is the repetition of consonant sounds?
60. The third stripe of the rainbow is .....