Poetry Terms Quiz 147 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which term has the following definition:Old French epic poems

Correct Answer: B) Chanson de geste.

2. What is the definition of a symbol?

Correct Answer: D) A symbol is any image or thing that stands for something else.

3. When human qualities and ideas are given to things

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

4. The overall feeling of the story is called

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

5. Figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

6. She's as cold as ice.

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

7. Form of Japanese poetry that has 5 unrhymed lines consisting of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables

Correct Answer: B) Tanka.

8. A poem with five lines, a rhyme scheme of AABBA, that is comedic is called a?

Correct Answer: D) Limerick.

9. What does "denotation" mean?

Correct Answer: A) The literal meaning of a word.

10. Follows strict rules (rhyme, rhythm, stanzas, etc.)

Correct Answer: A) Traditional.

11. He is like a shining star is an example of a ..... ?

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

12. Rhyme is the repetition of:

Correct Answer: B) Ending sounds.

13. A phrase that compares two things using "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

14. When two words have similar ending sounds or sound the same

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

15. An object, person, or place that has meaning beyond itself is

Correct Answer: C) A symbol.

16. The repetition of vowel sounds next to or within one word of each other is called

Correct Answer: D) Assonance.

17. Rhymes within a line of poetry

Correct Answer: B) Internal rhythm.

18. What literary device is this?The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas .....

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

19. Poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern.

Correct Answer: B) Free Verse.

20. "Press an ear against its hive."This is an example of what TWO poetic terms?

Correct Answer: B) Imagery & Metaphor.