Poetry Terms Quiz 419 (20 MCQs)

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1. Sounds that imitate meanings (pop, fizz, hiss)

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

2. In poetry, "feet" describes

Correct Answer: C) Basic rhythm/beat in a line of poetry.

3. Long narrative poems that are written in heightened language and tells the stories or the deeds of a heroic character

Correct Answer: C) Epics.

4. Rhyme Scheme:I love cats, and I like dogs.But most of allI like bats.

Correct Answer: C) ABCA.

5. What term means a "voice" that talks to readers?

Correct Answer: C) Speaker.

6. Address to an absent or imaginary person

Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe.

7. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" uses what type of sound device?

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

8. Rhymes

Correct Answer: A) Repeated sounds at the end of lines (pool, rule, fuel).

9. "I'm so tired I could sleep a year" is an example of

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

10. Words that have a similarity in sound but are not exact rhymes.

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

11. Which of these best matched the definition of tone?

Correct Answer: A) The way the author feels about the subject of the poem.

12. Exaggeration is when something is made out to be a lot greater than it actually is."It's a million degrees in here!"

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

13. Bittersweet is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

14. (n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person

Correct Answer: B) Monologue.

15. Eight-line unit in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Octave.

16. A story within a story:this often teaches a lesson or represents a larger idea/event.

Correct Answer: C) Allegory.

17. "Filthy McNasty is a mythical manchild of rather dubious distinction"

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

18. Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Assonance.

19. In Shel Silverstein's poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends", what best represents the place where the sidewalk ends?

Correct Answer: C) A child's imagination, dream, or the process of growing up.

20. Phrases or lines in a poem that repeat are called .....

Correct Answer: A) The refrain.