Poetry Terms Quiz 252 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the definition of symbol?

Correct Answer: B) A person, place, or object that stands for or represents something else.

2. "Sally sells seashells by the seashore."What is this an example of?

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

3. Expression containing a figurative meaning that differs from the phrase's literal meaning

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

4. Repetition of vowel sounds within a group of words

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

5. An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings ofits constituent elements; not to be taken literally

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

6. A songlike poem that tells a story, often a sad story of betrayal, death or loss; steady rhythm and simple rhyme pattern is known as .....

Correct Answer: A) A ballad.

7. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'?

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

8. Any regular pattern of rhythm based on stressed and unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

9. What are the different types of sonnets and their characteristics?

Correct Answer: D) Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet and English (Shakespearean) sonnet.

10. 2nd Person Point of View

Correct Answer: B) Key words:you, your.

11. A stanza or poem that contains eight lines

Correct Answer: C) Octave.

12. What is a poem?

Correct Answer: A) A collection of words that expresses an emotion or an idea.

13. Using letters of the alphabet in order to label the pattern of rhymes in a poem; for example:ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme.

14. A pattern of rhyming words at the end of a line.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme.

15. What is a cliche?

Correct Answer: D) An overused phrase or saying.

16. Ponyboy and Johnny read "Gone With the Wind"

Correct Answer: A) Allusion.

17. Lines of poetry made up of 10 syllables, with 5 stressed sounds and 5 unstressed sounds

Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter.

18. "A poem can make a person live forever" is an example of a .....

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

19. Limerick

Correct Answer: A) A very short humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines.

20. The medical care and treatment of the human foot

Correct Answer: A) Podiatry.