Poetry Terms Quiz 156 (20 MCQs)

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1. Songlike poetry that uses alot of figurative language. Many time it rhymes.

Correct Answer: C) Lyrical poetry.

2. Direct comparison often using "is" or "was"

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

3. They are paragraphs for a poem, or verses for a song .....

Correct Answer: B) Stanzas.

4. Which is the correct defintion of stanza?

Correct Answer: A) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.

5. Joe does know how the song should go.

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

6. The Culture's Created meaning for a word

Correct Answer: B) Connotation.

7. What is METER in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables used to create rhythm in a poem.

8. Which of the following is NOT a prose?

Correct Answer: A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

9. What is the following statement an example of? Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

10. What do you call a run on line of poetry that carries on to the next line of a poem

Correct Answer: B) Enjambment.

11. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse!"is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

12. The repetition of the same sounds at the end of a word

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

13. Metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of .....

Correct Answer: A) Figurative language.

14. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

Correct Answer: C) Figurative.

15. Expresses the feelings of a single speaker, using melodic language, imagery, rhythm, and sound devices to express emotions

Correct Answer: B) Lyric poetry.

16. All poems have to rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. Types of Stanzas:A three-line stanza is .....

Correct Answer: B) Triplet.

18. Word choice and usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses:

Correct Answer: B) Diction.

19. Although the box was light as a feather, Jermey refused to carry it.

Correct Answer: B) Cliche.

20. Giving human characteristics to things that aren't human

Correct Answer: A) Personification.