Poetry Terms Quiz 265 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. To walk heavily or slowly

Correct Answer: B) Plod.

2. Langston Hughes wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, For when dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow" This stanza is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

3. Call it a day, Hit the sack are examples of .....

Correct Answer: C) Idioms.

4. Common in poetry, which of the following is a figurative device that compares two things with "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

5. Of the following sentences, which contains the best example of alliteration?

Correct Answer: D) Nick's nephew needed some new notebooks.

6. Franklin's heart is gold

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

7. Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken This line contains the following:

Correct Answer: C) Cesura.

8. A poem with a shape that creates a picture.

Correct Answer: C) Concrete poem.

9. What poem is usually narrative, which means they tell a story, and arranged in 4 line quatrains with an ABAB rhyme scheme?

Correct Answer: D) Ballad.

10. Successions of similar sounds:repetition of first consonant sound of a word

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

11. Which of the following statements best demonstrates Rhyme?

Correct Answer: C) I will not eat them in a houseI will not eat them with a mouse!.

12. Syntax refers to .....

Correct Answer: C) The order of words in a sentence.

13. A poem traditionally from Ireland that is often silly, funny, or rude with a rhyme scheme of aabba

Correct Answer: B) Limerick.

14. What type of poem tell a story in verse and likely has characters, a setting, plot, conflict, and theme?

Correct Answer: B) Narrative.

15. Compare unlike things without using like or as

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

16. Putting 2 opposite things side by side for effect; it makes the contrast more obvious.

Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition.

17. A stanza is a

Correct Answer: B) Group of lines in a poem.

18. Which term means giving human characteristics to non-human things?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

19. The following is an example of what:The fingertips of the rain tapped on my window.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

20. A noun denoting a material object rather than an abstract quality, state, or action, e.g. dog, building, tree, is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Concrete noun.