Poetry Terms Quiz 402 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Quatrain is .....

Correct Answer: C) A four line stanza.

2. A contradiction that is nevertheless true

Correct Answer: A) Paradox.

3. Something in the world of the senses; sign for something else

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

4. Didactic poetry

Correct Answer: D) Poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching.

5. Words that sound like what they are

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

6. Shape poetry in which the meaning or message is partly or wholly conveyed through its shape

Correct Answer: A) Concrete poetry.

7. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines in poetry

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

8. A poem that may have rhyme, but their shapes and patterns may be unusual

Correct Answer: A) Open/irregular.

9. Choose the word with the most positive connotation.

Correct Answer: B) Chat.

10. One of the rows of words

Correct Answer: A) Line (verse).

11. Poem characterized by the expression of a feeling

Correct Answer: A) Lyric.

12. The lesson or message the author is trying to convey

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

13. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

Correct Answer: B) Limerick.

14. An extreme exaggeration to help make a point

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

15. The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words

Correct Answer: D) Consonance.

16. Carpe diem means

Correct Answer: C) Seize the day!.

17. A humorous 5-line poetic form with an AABBA rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: B) Limerick.

18. A line of poetry having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.

Correct Answer: A) Enjambment.

19. Iambic pentameter is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Meter.

20. Instilling human qualities to nonhuman qualities

Correct Answer: C) Personification.