Poetry Terms Quiz 219 (20 MCQs)

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1. The pattern in which the last words in lines of poetry rhyme.

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme.

2. Who wrote the Elegies "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" ?

Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman.

3. What is significant about free verse poetry?

Correct Answer: C) It does not have to have a certain structure or rhyming pattern.

4. Which type of writing is written in lines that don't need to have punctuation?

Correct Answer: A) Poetry.

5. A form of imagery when one thing is compared to another using the words "like" or "as."

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

6. Use a dictionary to find the denotative or ..... definition of a word.

Correct Answer: C) Literal.

7. An ..... is a long, narrative poem.

Correct Answer: D) Epic.

8. A thing that stands not only for itself but for something else as well. It is the visible expression of a hidden meaning.

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

9. She is on a roller coaster of emotions.

Correct Answer: C) She is having lots of different feelings.

10. A paragraph in a poem is

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

11. The repetition of sound at the end of words is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

12. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

13. The repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.

Correct Answer: A) Consonance.

14. Choose the clue words that indicate cause and effect.

Correct Answer: C) Consequently, as a result of, so, therefore.

15. A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

16. Poetry without structure/meter and doesn't rhyme

Correct Answer: C) Free verse.

17. The pattern of rhymes-AABBABAB

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

18. He ..... play after school today

Correct Answer: A) Can't.

19. ..... is the way a poem looks on the page.

Correct Answer: C) Structure.

20. What is a narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story that is usually intended to be sung?

Correct Answer: B) Ballad.