Poetry Terms Quiz 381 (20 MCQs)

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1. The strong and weak beats of a poem establishes its .....

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

2. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

3. Which term below means:the grammatical structure and complete idea continue past the end of the line.

Correct Answer: B) Enjambed Line.

4. This has a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

5. A form of metaphor which in mentioning part signifies a whole

Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche.

6. A songlike narrative poem that tells a story

Correct Answer: B) Ballad.

7. Read the line below. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, What type of figurative language or stylistic element is found in this line?

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

8. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

9. Fourteen-line lyric poem

Correct Answer: C) Sonnet.

10. Repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

11. Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

Correct Answer: C) Plagiarism.

12. What type of sound device is used?The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

13. A long, wandering journey

Correct Answer: B) Odyssey.

14. Which connotation is most NEGATIVE (-)? We bought ..... souvenirs at the Lagoon amusement park.

Correct Answer: A) Cheap.

15. What is the syllable pattern?

Correct Answer: D) 5-7-5.

16. What does stanza mean?

Correct Answer: A) A division or section of a poem named for the quantity of lines it contains.

17. Organized patters of rhyming words in poetry.

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme pattern.

18. Identify the figurative language that is used in the following sentence.The sky was dark and gloomy, and the air was damp and raw.

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

19. "He grew as tall as a skyscraper once he hit sophomore year." is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

20. Feminine ending

Correct Answer: D) Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter.