Poetry Terms Quiz 476 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Using images or symbols to represent an idea

Correct Answer: C) Symbolism.

2. "The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate"These lines are an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

3. The place where the poet chooses to end a line, often used to indicate rhythm or to represent meaning.

Correct Answer: C) Line break.

4. The speaker's attitude towards a subject

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

5. What is the main purpose of poetry.

Correct Answer: C) For entertainment purposes.

6. Which of these contains an adjective?

Correct Answer: A) The grey clouds.

7. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem or song usually at the end of a stanza is:

Correct Answer: C) A refrain.

8. Two or three syllable rhyme, unstressed final syllable (motion-notion, daughter-water, permanent-tournament)

Correct Answer: B) Feminine.

9. A poem mourning the dead

Correct Answer: D) Elegy.

10. A poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line

Correct Answer: A) Acrostic.

11. Which word means "the overall organization of lines and/or the conventional patterns of sound" ?

Correct Answer: A) Structure.

12. You are a cheetah

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

13. When rhymes follow a particular pattern

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme.

14. The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry (ex:AABB, ABAB)

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme(rhyming pattern).

15. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" .

Correct Answer: D) SIMILE.

16. This poetic device has a pause or break in the poem for emphasis

Correct Answer: B) Cesura.

17. Who was Robert Browning married to?

Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Barrett.

18. The use of grammatically similar structures, be they nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, or larger structures.

Correct Answer: C) Parallelism.

19. What is language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling?

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

20. Which contains a correct example of assonance and the correct definition?

Correct Answer: C) The repetition of vowel sounds next to or within one word of eachother in a line such as in (the quiet bias of silence).