Poetry Terms Quiz 296 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that sound alike

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

2. A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse

Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme.

3. Line or lines in a poem that are repeated at the end of a stanza

Correct Answer: D) Refrain.

4. Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.

5. The person or narrator telling the story

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

6. "There are a ton of similes in the poem." This is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

7. Describing an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

8. What is a common theme in haiku?

Correct Answer: A) Nature.

9. The poet organizes the poem by-

Correct Answer: C) Presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience.

10. The atmosphere the author creates using literary devices

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

11. What is a triplet or tercet?

Correct Answer: B) Three lines of poetry that rhyme.

12. Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending soundis called

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

13. The treadmill smiled when Sally finally used it This is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

14. The author's word choice

Correct Answer: D) Diction.

15. She had butterflies in her stomach is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) The idiom.

16. Is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. We can describe rhyme scheme using letters to indicate different rhymes.

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme.

17. A knot in the wood; there is beauty in just that.A simple marking.

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

18. Soft soft strong

Correct Answer: D) Anapest.

19. I was as sick as a dog is an example of a/an ..... ?

Correct Answer: C) Idiom.

20. The use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once is

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.