Poetry Terms Quiz 384 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is metaphor in poetry?

Correct Answer: D) Figure of speech, a comparison where one thing is spoken of as if it is something else.

2. The narrator of a poem is called the .....

Correct Answer: A) Speaker.

3. A poem that sounds like a song, it expresses strong feelings and has can be read with emotion.It has a rhythm and often rhymes.

Correct Answer: A) Lyrical Poetry.

4. A poem that consists of the words of a single, fictional speaker in a specific time, place, and dramatic situation is a

Correct Answer: B) Dramatic monologue.

5. Regular rhythm

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

6. A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

Correct Answer: C) Irony.

7. Structural Elements of Prose

Correct Answer: A) Sentence, Paragraph, Dialogue, Chapter.

8. A four-line stanza, or group of lines, in poetry

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

9. Which describes an ode?

Correct Answer: E) Written to or about a particular subject; not usually a lot of rhyme.

10. What do the following lines from "The Road Not Taken" mean? "And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler ..... "

Correct Answer: B) The speaker is only one person and cannot go down two roads at the same time.

11. Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) End rhyme.

12. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Use lowercase letters to identify the last word in each line.

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme.

13. Rhyme scheme is the pattern of ..... that comes at the end of each line or stanza in poetry

Correct Answer: C) Rhyming.

14. What is rhythm in a poem?

Correct Answer: C) The sound and feel created by the pattern of syllables in a poem.

15. "The pen was dancing across the paper" is an example of:

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

16. Words that create a strong emotion for the reader are called

Correct Answer: B) Emotive language.

17. Four line stanza

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

18. A Haiku MUST consist of the syllable pattern .....

Correct Answer: A) 5-7-5.

19. Repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry or within consecutive lines

Correct Answer: D) Internal lines.

20. Silver bells! ..... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.

Correct Answer: C) Onamotopoeia.