Poetry Terms Quiz 234 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. An over the top exaggeration

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

2. Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is .....

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

3. A comparison using like or as.For example:she was as quiet as a mouse.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

4. Literal language is .....

Correct Answer: B) When you say exactly what you mean.

5. The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Correct Answer: C) Irony.

6. Four line poems that rhyme.

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

7. A haiku is a

Correct Answer: A) 17 syllable poem about nature.

8. Which word means "literary elements or techniques a poet uses to reinforce ideas and overall meaning in a poem" ?

Correct Answer: B) Poetic devices.

9. A poet's attitude toward the subject of the poem

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

10. Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. (Think about how YOU feel as the reader/listener).

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

11. Pattern of end rhyme Ex. AA BB

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme.

12. What is a subject?

Correct Answer: C) The person/place/thing that the poem is about.

13. Telling people you are "between jobs" instead of "got fired"

Correct Answer: D) Euphemism.

14. The beat and movement of language (rise and fall, repetition and variation, change of pitch, mix of syllables, melody of words).

Correct Answer: C) Rhythm.

15. Poetry that appeals to the FIVE senses.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

16. Which word means "the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language" ?

Correct Answer: D) Syntax.

17. Three line poem that is organized by syllables

Correct Answer: C) Haiku.

18. "Dewy dawns" is an example of

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

19. The associated meaning of a word-positive or negative. Images and thoughts evoked from a word by the reader.

Correct Answer: B) Connotation.

20. Refrain is when a poem repeats entire lines or more several times throughout.Like the chorus of a song

Correct Answer: C) Refrain.