Poetry Terms Quiz 218 (20 MCQs)

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1. What uses rhyming words at the end of two lines next to each other?

Correct Answer: B) Couplet.

2. A direct comparison between two unlike things

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

3. The rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

4. It is a poem for the dead.

Correct Answer: A) Elegy.

5. What is the meaning of mood in poetry?

Correct Answer: A) The feeling words give you.

6. The way you feel when you read a text

Correct Answer: D) Mood.

7. A combination of contradictory words or phrases continued in a single expression.

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

8. I am as hungry as a bear!

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

9. A style of Poetry that follows no rules

Correct Answer: A) Free Verse.

10. Words that have the same end sounds

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

11. A poem's narrator

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

12. A type of writing that uses sentences and paragraphs to express ideas

Correct Answer: B) Prose.

13. Which of these is NOT an example of true rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) Fearing failing.

14. Repetition of sound at the ends of words

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

15. The words or subject of a piece of writing

Correct Answer: D) Content.

16. One the second page (p. 553), there's a photograph of .....

Correct Answer: C) Tornado.

17. The beat, sound, and feel of a poem

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

18. This is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning.

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

19. A poem that tells a story is called

Correct Answer: D) Narrative Poem.

20. A fourteen-line lyric poem that is written in iambic pentameter and has a rhyme scheme.

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.