Poetry Terms Quiz 338 (20 MCQs)

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1. When two or more words in a sentence start with the same letter

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

2. Poem with a rhythm like everyday speech and does not have regular patterns of rhyme

Correct Answer: C) Free verse.

3. An object that stands for a deeper concept

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

4. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

Correct Answer: D) Pun.

5. All Poetry must rhyme

Correct Answer: B) False.

6. What is the rhythm of a poem?

Correct Answer: D) The beat and pace of a poem.

7. What is parallelism?

Correct Answer: C) The technique of showing that words, phrases, and clauses are comparbale in context and importance.

8. Lyrical poems.....

Correct Answer: D) Has a set rhyme and rhythm.

9. A poem that does not rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

10. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds are known as .....

Correct Answer: C) Rhymes.

11. A group of lines in a poem, rather than paragraphs

Correct Answer: C) Stanzas.

12. Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

13. A set of four lines within a poem

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

14. A three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables.

Correct Answer: C) Haiku.

15. ..... poems rhyme and express personal thoughts and feelings, like a song.

Correct Answer: D) Lyrical.

16. Repeated consonant sound, especially at the beginning of the word:i.e. Coca Cola

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

17. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two things using "like or "as"

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

18. "It's raining cats and dogs" or "He's on fire"

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

19. Where did Haikus come from?

Correct Answer: B) From Japan.

20. When something represents or stands for something else.

Correct Answer: C) Symbolism.