Poetry Terms Quiz 203 (20 MCQs)

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1. The following is an example of which sound device?"Peter piper picked pickled peppers or sally sold sea shells by the seashore"

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

2. A line break is .....

Correct Answer: C) When the author chooses to end one line in a poem and begin another.

3. If two words are close, but they don't rhyme exactly, we call that ..... rhyme.

Correct Answer: A) Slant.

4. A very short and humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: A) Limerick.

5. What is the message that the poet is communicating to the audience, that can be applied to anyone's life?

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

6. A word that has the same ending sound as another word is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

7. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

8. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to a nonhuman object

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

9. Read the following line: "I bought a sour pickle and a bag of salty chips." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?

Correct Answer: C) Sense of taste.

10. When a writer compares one thing to another.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

11. The use of words to imitate sounds

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

12. Lines of a poem that are separated into groups

Correct Answer: D) Stanza.

13. A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something else.

Correct Answer: C) Symbol.

14. The vantage point from which a narrative is told The first person, third person (limited or omniscient)

Correct Answer: B) Point of View.

15. Poetic form reforms to a poem's

Correct Answer: A) Structure (the way it is written).

16. A poem that uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line

Correct Answer: A) Acrostic.

17. A group of lines in poetry, typically more than two, that form the basic unit of the poem.

Correct Answer: D) Stanza.

18. A poem where the first letter of each line form a word or phrase when read together.

Correct Answer: D) Acrostic.

19. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

20. Form means

Correct Answer: C) The overall structure of a poem.