Poetry Terms Quiz 220 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. ..... is where an object, person, place, or experience means more than what it is.

Correct Answer: A) Symbolism.

2. Idiom is .....

Correct Answer: B) A common figurative saying.

3. I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.What structure is being used here?

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

4. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the literal, dictionary definition.

Correct Answer: A) Denotation.

5. Which of the following describes unrhymed iambic pentameter?

Correct Answer: C) Blank Verse.

6. Group of stressed and unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

7. Meter impacts a poem by controlling the ..... of the poem.

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm and speed.

8. A direct comparison between two unrelated things, stating that one is the other

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

9. The collective sense of images in a peom or other literary work

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

10. Which of the following is an example of assonance?

Correct Answer: B) Travel, animosity, amber.

11. What do we call a two line stanza?

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

12. Which form of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

13. Occurs when rhyming words come within the lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme.

14. A narrative poem always includes all of the following elements, except .....

Correct Answer: A) A mysterious villain.

15. Group of lines in poem is called:

Correct Answer: A) In Room.

16. The repetition of a word or phrase in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

17. What is a volta?

Correct Answer: A) The shift or point of dramatic change in a poem.

18. In poetry, each ..... is like a sentence.

Correct Answer: C) Line.

19. A group of lines arranged together. Is a division of a poem consisting of lines arranged together. Many kinds Ex Cupolet, Triplet, Quatrain)

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

20. The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. This sentence is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.