Poetry Terms Quiz 397 (20 MCQs)

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1. Imagism was a movement in the Modern Literature which .....

Correct Answer: B) Presented accurate, precise and definite descriptions.

2. What is the definition of a haiku?

Correct Answer: D) A three-line Japanese form of poetry with a specific syllable pattern.

3. Enjambment and End Stop both represent this term:

Correct Answer: A) Line Break.

4. An ..... is a word or phrase (an expression) which means something different from what it says.

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

5. What type of figurative language is a comparison using "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

6. The smallest part of a poem is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Line.

7. Japanese verse 3 non-rhyming lines in 5, 7, 5 syllables

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

8. Dumbledore gave a great sniff as he took a golden watch from his pocket and examined it.

Correct Answer: B) Prose.

9. The repetition of vowel sound in poetry

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

10. A poem that tells a story with characters and a plot is called a .....

Correct Answer: C) Narrative poem.

11. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed, as in seventeen and to the moon.

Correct Answer: D) Anapest.

12. A comparison using the word "is"

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

13. Giving human characteristics to describe a non living thing or animal

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

14. In poetry, there are .....

Correct Answer: A) Lines.

15. The literary term for exaggeration is called:

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

16. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other.

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

17. A word, line, or phrase in a poem that is repeated.

Correct Answer: A) Refrain.

18. What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue?

Correct Answer: C) Epic.

19. Refers to a word choice.

Correct Answer: D) Diction.

20. A rhyme within the same line of poetry

Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme.