Poetry Terms Quiz 370 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Giving human characteristics to something that is not alive

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

2. A traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem. Includes limerick, sonnet, and villanelle

Correct Answer: A) Fixed Form.

3. A spoken or written account of connected events

Correct Answer: D) Narrative.

4. Pattern of syllables in a line of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

5. It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets. This is an example of

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

6. Try to light the fire.

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

7. A poem with a shape that suggests its subject

Correct Answer: B) Concrete poem.

8. Writer's choice of words

Correct Answer: B) Diction.

9. What is the definition of the term:Personification?

Correct Answer: D) A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

10. Two or more lines of poetry that have the same ending sounds

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

11. Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

12. Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern

Correct Answer: C) Free verse.

13. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. An example:Alice the alligator always allows me to have an allowance.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

14. Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the five senses

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

15. The use of words that begin with the same beginning sound near one another.

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

16. What is one line of a poem?

Correct Answer: D) Verse.

17. Shows the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject.

Correct Answer: D) Mood.

18. Shows a poem's rhyming pattern.

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme.

19. The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

20. Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.