Poetry Terms Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. Enjambment

Correct Answer: A) Continuation of a sentence without pause at the end.

2. What is rhythm?

Correct Answer: C) Regular, repeated pattern of sounds, or beats.

3. This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event or literary work.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

4. The pattern of end rhymes is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme.

5. Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

6. This term refers to the literal or dictionary definition of a word.

Correct Answer: D) Denotation.

7. A repeating pattern of rhythm and rhyme throughout a poem

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

8. An expression that most people understand but is not meant to be taken literally.

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

9. The use of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence more than once

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

10. Words, phrases, or impressions that are not interpreted logically or literally and have cultural connotations

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

11. Using a word or a phrase in more than one place for effect.

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

12. BOOM!

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

13. Description using the 5 senses

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

14. A 4 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme such as ABBA, ABAB, or AABB

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

15. Poetry that tells a story $\rightarrow$ free verse

Correct Answer: B) False.

16. His eyes are dark pieces of coal.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

17. Agreeable sounds that are easy to articulate

Correct Answer: A) Euphony.

18. An audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables.

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

19. The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story.

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

20. Which is the best example of internal rhyme?

Correct Answer: D) "rubbery blubbery macaroni".