Poetry Terms Quiz 208 (20 MCQs)

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1. There are 14 lines in both Shakespearean and Italian Sonnets

Correct Answer: A) True.

2. The repetition of sounds in words that appear close to each other in a poem.

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

3. This sentence appeals to which sense:The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

Correct Answer: A) Sound.

4. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words.

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

5. ..... are comparisons using "like" or "as" . For example:The day was as cold as a wet blanket.

Correct Answer: A) Similes.

6. This school is an asylum.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

7. The literary device which uses words that imitate the sound they are naming is known as .....

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

8. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron.

9. A poem's beauty created through its construction, words, and message is its:

Correct Answer: C) Aesthetic value.

10. An example of the term "onomatopoeia" is .....

Correct Answer: C) The soda fizzed and popped.

11. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about allusions?

Correct Answer: C) They are usually universally understandable.

12. A group of lines forming a unit in poetry

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

13. What is the regular pattern of rhyming words? Example:AABBCCDD

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme.

14. Alliteration, rhyme, and refrain are all forms of:

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

15. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry"

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

16. What poetic device is this an example of?"You have to stop getting out of bed like you're an oil spill"

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

17. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure, and mimics regular speech is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.

18. Structure means.....

Correct Answer: B) How the poem is written-more like brainstorming or like a list.

19. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?It took me 100 years to finish my homework last night.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

20. "Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Simile.