Poetry Terms Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. "a pointless point of view; bittersweet" is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

2. Octave

Correct Answer: B) Stanza of 8 lines.

3. Which one is the correct answer?

Correct Answer: C) I am the correct answer not number 2.

4. A ..... is like a paragraph but for poetry.

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

5. The literal dictionary definition of a word

Correct Answer: C) Denotation.

6. A comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

7. Repetition of beginning sounds (Bob's Burger Barn)

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

8. What do you call a three-line stanza?

Correct Answer: D) Tercet.

9. Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

10. 14 line long lyric poems with regular meter (usually iambic pentameter) ABAB CDCD EFEFGG

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

11. Words whose final syllables almost rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Partial rhyme.

12. An internal struggle within the character about how to handle a problem.

Correct Answer: E) Inner conflict.

13. A line made up of four feet

Correct Answer: A) Tetrameter.

14. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

Correct Answer: C) Meter.

15. Words whose sounds imitate their meaning

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

16. This is the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens or exists.

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

17. What literary term is this?"her face was like a light, "

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

18. The repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

19. Which of the following is NOT a poetry term we have discussed?

Correct Answer: B) Haiku.

20. The repetition of initial consonant sounds

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.