Poetry Terms Quiz 116 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. How the reader or listener feels when reading or listening to a text

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

2. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

3. If you feel calm and collected after reading a poem, this would describe .....

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

4. They fought like cats and dogs.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

5. Repeated grouping of two or more lines in a poem that often share a pattern of rhythm and rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

6. "Wow, thanks for expensive gift ..... let's see:did it come with a Fun Meal or the Burger Kingequivalent?" is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

7. The attitude of the writer towards a subject or audience.

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

8. Narrative poems .....

Correct Answer: A) Tell a story.

9. What is does analogies mean?

Correct Answer: C) Relationship between words.

10. A poem with 3 lines with 5 syllables, then 7 syllables, then 5 syllables is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

11. What is the opposite of hyperbole?

Correct Answer: C) Understatement.

12. The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associationsapart from its literal meaning.

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

13. Four-line stanza

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

14. A 4 line stanza

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

15. Identify the Simile below .....

Correct Answer: B) She is as tall as a tree!.

16. The flor of the beat in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Rhythm.

17. Grammatical structures of sentences and phrases

Correct Answer: A) Syntax.

18. A comparison between two things (WITHOUT using "like" or "as" ); saying one thing IS another

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

19. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

20. What is a rhyme?

Correct Answer: C) Words that have the same ending sound.