Poetry Terms Quiz 186 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. ..... refers to an author's attitude toward the subject matter.

Correct Answer: C) Tone.

2. What is "lyrical poetry" ?

Correct Answer: A) Subjective and emotional poetry.

3. A direct comparison of two unlike things that does NOT use like or as is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

4. The main idea of a poem. What does the author want you to learn?

Correct Answer: B) Theme.

5. The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to a poem.

Correct Answer: D) Meter.

6. Which type of figurative language gives a passing reference to another idea, work of art, or popular text?

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

7. This is exaggeration. I was so happy, I was ten feet tall.

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

8. What does the term paraphrase mean?

Correct Answer: A) To put in your own words.

9. Which type of poem is a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker

Correct Answer: B) Lyric.

10. Tercet

Correct Answer: D) A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme.

11. Pattern of rhymes used in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme.

12. What conclusions can you draw about the speakers age and personality in "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" ?

Correct Answer: B) She is brave and ready to face any challenges that come her way.

13. The author of the poem

Correct Answer: A) Poet.

14. What is the purpose of a simile in poetry?

Correct Answer: C) To compare two unrelated things.

15. A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor

Correct Answer: B) Conceit.

16. A word or group of words that appeals to one or more of the senses:sight, taste, touch, hearing, smell.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

17. Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines

Correct Answer: C) End rhyme.

18. You are barking up the wrong tree is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

19. A poem that does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or meter

Correct Answer: B) Free verse poem.

20. In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a ..... that relates to the content of the poem

Correct Answer: C) Picture.