Poetry Terms Quiz 477 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of these is a pun?

Correct Answer: B) What has eyes but can't see? A potato.

2. A word that makes a noise or sound

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

3. A poem that tells a story. These poems often have all the elements of a short story, including characters, dialogue, setting, conflict, and plot.

Correct Answer: A) Narrative.

4. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

5. Which type of poems tell a story?

Correct Answer: B) Narrative poem.

6. A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.

Correct Answer: C) Anapest.

7. Which of these means "giving nonhuman objects human characteristics?"

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

8. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: B) Foot.

9. A comparison of two unlike objects

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

10. Occurs when rhyming words come at the ends of lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) End rhyme.

11. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to place or thing, or a personified abstract idea

Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe.

12. An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event.

Correct Answer: A) Allusion.

13. He was ..... to go swimming

Correct Answer: B) Able.

14. A rhythmic pattern of stressed-unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: B) Trochee.

15. Repeating vowel sounds in nearby words

Correct Answer: C) Assonance.

16. ..... is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

17. Poetry that uses a strict meter (a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and a strict rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: B) Formal verse.

18. The rhythmic pattern established by stresses or beat within each line of a poem.

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

19. What is the definition of the term:Perfect Rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) The rhyming words have the exact same pattern of spelling or pronunciation.

20. Which word is considered figurative language?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.