Poetry Terms Quiz 303 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. A comparison of two seemingly unlike things

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

2. When a poet exaggerates on purpose for effect

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

3. Poetry written to an established pattern, e.g., a sonnet, limerick, villanelle, pantoum, tritina, sestina, or rondel

Correct Answer: B) Close form.

4. "Two households, both alike in dignity"

Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter.

5. What is an example of simile?

Correct Answer: B) He is as tall as a mountain.

6. Words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

7. A word that sounds like what it represents. Words like "meow, " "oink, " "pop, " or "click."

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

8. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem/song

Correct Answer: A) Refrain.

9. What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg."

Correct Answer: C) She was joking with me.

10. A poem set in tranquil nature, or one about shepherds

Correct Answer: B) Pastoral.

11. Refers to the rhythm of a poem or other written work as it's expressed through the number and length of the feet in each line.

Correct Answer: D) Meter.

12. Select the personification below?

Correct Answer: D) The blanket wrapped its arms around me.

13. May use unconventional spelling, punctuation and grammar

Correct Answer: A) Organic.

14. An play on words; a double word meaning

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

15. Syllables are pronounced Stronger

Correct Answer: A) Stressed Syllables.

16. Words that describe opposite ideas, seems to be a contradiction would be called:

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

17. What is the best definition of alliteration?

Correct Answer: D) Repetition of the initial consonant sound.

18. Compares two unlike objects or ideas without using like or asStates that something IS something else

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

19. Anything that stands for itself and something else on a figurative level

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

20. The repetition of an initial consonant sound

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.