Poetry Terms Quiz 480 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. A ..... poem tells a story.

Correct Answer: B) Narrative.

2. The symbolic meaning

Correct Answer: B) Figurative meaning.

3. Which connotation is MORE positive? We saw ..... animals in the animal house.

Correct Answer: A) Fascinating.

4. A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

5. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

6. A 14-line lyrical poem

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

7. The comparison of two unlike things is called

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

8. The choice of a particular word as opposed to others.

Correct Answer: D) Diction.

9. A couplet is..... lines.

Correct Answer: A) 2.

10. Dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem

Correct Answer: D) Persona.

11. Wise / foolish

Correct Answer: C) Antonyms.

12. A group of words or text on one line

Correct Answer: D) Line.

13. An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

14. What is being personified:During the night, the rain yelled at us.

Correct Answer: B) Rain.

15. A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

16. What is this an example of? The leaves danced across the lawn.

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

17. Examples include:metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia

Correct Answer: D) Figurative language.

18. If I say "Chocolate is my kryptonite, " that is an example of a/an ..... to Superman's weakness to kryptonite.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

19. I have a hatShe has a catWe both like bats

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

20. "greenery, machintery, scenery" is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.