Poetry Terms Quiz 255 (20 MCQs)

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1. A 4-line poem with one of several schemes (also a stanza in a longer poem); the usual rhyme schemes include ABCB, AABB or ABAB

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

2. John is a sheep

Correct Answer: B) John is a follower, not a leader.

3. Mood refers to .....

Correct Answer: D) The emotional setting of a text.

4. The feeling or idea associated with a word.

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

5. What is the purpose of narrative poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Tell a story.

6. What ..... were you born?

Correct Answer: B) Year.

7. Match the definition to the word:Anaphora

Correct Answer: B) Repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses.

8. What is a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

9. Which of these contribute to the "shape" of the poem?

Correct Answer: B) Graphic elements.

10. I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

11. A synonym of the word "appealing" is .....

Correct Answer: A) Interesting.

12. What type of figurative language is shown?She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

13. To end in the same sounds EX:cupcake/mistake

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme (rima).

14. A quintet has..... lines.

Correct Answer: D) 5.

15. What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

16. What is free verse?

Correct Answer: B) A poem that doesn't rhyme.

17. Sensory images

Correct Answer: B) The use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions.

18. Compares 2 unlike things without using the words like or as

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

19. The use of words that sound like their meanings such as buzz and boom

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

20. An overtly exaggerated statement or claim

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.