Poetry Terms Quiz 408 (20 MCQs)

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1. A stanza that has eight lines.

Correct Answer: D) Octave.

2. Which term refers to the ending of a sentence at the end of a line of poetry?

Correct Answer: B) End-stopped.

3. A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet

Correct Answer: A) Tercet.

4. "A promise made is a debt unpaid" is an example of:

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

5. What is an example of "rhyming?"

Correct Answer: C) Try cry.

6. No fixed metrical pattern, but may be rhythmical

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

7. " The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside ..... " is an example of a .....

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

8. What is is anything that hints at something else, usually something abstract, such as an idea or belief?

Correct Answer: B) Symbol.

9. In the opening of unit, a writer compares poetry to a .....

Correct Answer: A) River.

10. A consistent pattern of rhymes

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme.

11. How the reader feels about the text while reading

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

12. An ode

Correct Answer: B) Praises the subject of the poem.

13. "Annabel Lee" is classified as a .....

Correct Answer: A) Narrative poem.

14. The affix bio-means

Correct Answer: B) Life.

15. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

16. The rhyme or beat established by a poem.

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

17. ..... includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader's experience through their senses.

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

18. A serious poem containing exactly 14 lines, made famous by Shakespeare

Correct Answer: D) Sonnet.

19. Dylan Thomas' repetition of the word "rage" in his poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Anaphora.

20. Main idea or topic. For example:friendship, love, life

Correct Answer: A) Theme.