Poetry Terms Quiz 253 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is true about free verse poetry?

Correct Answer: D) All of these are true.

2. Line does not end with punctuation; continue to read on to the next line in order to complete the thought

Correct Answer: D) Enjambment.

3. Five-line poems or stanzas with a syllable pattern of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

Correct Answer: A) Cinquain.

4. Which one of these is NOT a narrative type of poetry?

Correct Answer: D) Ode.

5. Writer of a poem

Correct Answer: B) Poet.

6. A comparison between two things using words such as, "like" or "as."Ex:Her smile was like a breath of fresh air.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

7. A lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure

Correct Answer: A) Ode.

8. A poem that states the poems sadness

Correct Answer: C) Elegy.

9. Songlike poetry that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance

Correct Answer: A) Ballad.

10. What rhymes in this stanza?Nothin' to sayWhen everything gets in the waySeems you cannot be replacedAnd I'm the one who will stay, oh-oh-oh

Correct Answer: D) Say/way.

11. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Correct Answer: B) Genre.

12. A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker

Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem.

13. Jumbo shrimp is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron.

14. The main building block of a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose writing.

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

15. Language that cannot be taken literally

Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language.

16. The use of words to imitate sounds; the words used, when pronounced, sound like the sound they describe. Ex:Bang, zoom, buzz

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

17. Giving human traits to non-human things

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

18. The voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer's feelings or situation

Correct Answer: A) Speaker.

19. What is an end rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line.

20. Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

Correct Answer: A) Her shirt was as colorful as a rainbow.