Poetry Terms Quiz 158 (20 MCQs)

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1. The voice that narrates (tells) the poem (not always the author)

Correct Answer: A) Speaker.

2. Which choice is an example of an apostrophe?

Correct Answer: A) Chromebook, why can't you charge?!.

3. Break a leg when you go on stage.

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

4. Author's word choice

Correct Answer: C) Diction.

5. What type of poem has exactly 14 lines with a very specific rhyme scheme, rhythm, and structure?

Correct Answer: D) Sonnet.

6. Repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

7. Writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter in each line of text spells out another message

Correct Answer: C) Acrostic.

8. A comparison between two things using the words like or as.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

9. How does the poet convey the horrors of war?

Correct Answer: A) Use of graphic language.

10. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words in one line of poetry.

Correct Answer: D) Consonance.

11. A pattern of end rhymes is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme.

12. Poems are organized by-

Correct Answer: A) Stanzas.

13. "sentences" in poetry

Correct Answer: B) Line.

14. The overall moral or lesson of a poem

Correct Answer: A) Theme.

15. A line of metrical writing

Correct Answer: A) Verse.

16. Figurative Language refers to the literal meaning of a sentence/phrase

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. Using the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern of a poem is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme/Pattern.

18. What is the definition of the term:Sonnet?

Correct Answer: B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter.

19. Is poetry without rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) Free Verse.

20. ..... refers to literature that ridicules human folly or vice in order to bring about some kind of reform.

Correct Answer: B) Satire.