Poetry Terms Quiz 420 (20 MCQs)

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1. Caesura is best defined as .....

Correct Answer: A) A strong pause or stop; usually occurs in the middle of a line of poetry but can occur in the beginning or end.

2. The repetition of consonant sounds close together is .....

Correct Answer: E) Alliteration.

3. Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story?

Correct Answer: C) Imagination.

4. Which on of the five senses is used in this sentence? "The warm juicy burger was like heaven on my tongue."

Correct Answer: A) Taste.

5. A comparison of two unlike things that uses "just so" or "as" and is developed over several lines of verse.

Correct Answer: C) Epic simile.

6. Uses you, your, yours

Correct Answer: B) Second person.

7. "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin is a pleasure."The inversion in this line shows which structure of poetry?

Correct Answer: C) Chiasmus.

8. When words rhyme at the end of lines

Correct Answer: A) End rhyme.

9. A funny, five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme.

Correct Answer: A) Limerick.

10. Placing side by side two contradictory words that make logical sense when explained.

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron.

11. Tells a story (includes ballads, epics)

Correct Answer: D) Narrative.

12. This is an example of:The class was happy as a clam.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

13. Identify the meaning of the idiom "Can't judge a book by its cover."

Correct Answer: B) It is hard to tell how something is simply from its outward appearance.

14. Words with identical sounds but different meanings (e.g. raise/raze, stair/stare) are

Correct Answer: C) Rich rhymes.

15. A stressed (or accented) syllable.

Correct Answer: D) Beat.

16. The word "Mockingbird" is an example of what pattern

Correct Answer: D) Dactyle.

17. A poem that expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings, and creates a mood through vivid images.

Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem.

18. "She broke down in tears when she saw the ring in the box." is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Symbolism.

19. Being bored in an action movie. Bored is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

20. Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows-

Correct Answer: B) The speaker's commitment to his garden.