Poetry Terms Quiz 318 (20 MCQs)

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1. Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

2. Rhyming within the line-not at the end.

Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme.

3. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

4. This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

5. IDENTIFY THE RHYME SCHEMETrue friends are by your sideThrough it allTrue friends are thereTo catch you when you fall.

Correct Answer: A) ABCB.

6. An exaggeration for humorous effect or emphasis

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

7. Long (book length) narrative in verse form that retells a heroic journey.

Correct Answer: B) Epic.

8. A writer's voice and attitude in a piece.

Correct Answer: C) Tone.

9. The snow is a white blanket. Metaphor?

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

10. I'm drowning in paperwork.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

11. A pattern formed by the end rhyme in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme.

12. Which type of poem is usually song like?

Correct Answer: C) Ballad.

13. What word means the use of extreme exaggeration?

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

14. It conveys the tone author's "attitude" about the poem's subject matter. It is what we "hear" when we read or listen to a poem:

Correct Answer: D) Voice.

15. Which word means images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art?

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

16. The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. ABBA, BCCB,

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme:.

17. An example of REPETITION is .....

Correct Answer: A) Rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung.

18. Connotation is a word's .....

Correct Answer: B) Emotional meaning.

19. Writing done in paragraphs and complete sentences

Correct Answer: A) Prose.

20. Which of the following poems does not rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.