Poetry Terms Quiz 49 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using the words "like" or "as" to compare one thing to another is called a:

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

2. "The house was an island, cut off from the rest of the community."

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

3. Sylvia Plath uses this type of poetry for the majority of her work.

Correct Answer: D) Free verse.

4. Simile or Metaphor?The assignment was a breeze.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

5. Sound devices

Correct Answer: C) Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality.

6. Giving an object human-like qualities

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

7. What is a slant rhyme in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) A near rhyme or partial rhyme where the sounds are similar but not identical.

8. The fire exit signs indicate or ..... were to go if there is a fire exit.

Correct Answer: A) Shows.

9. ..... is is a regular rhythm in a poem.

Correct Answer: D) Meter.

10. True or false:a word always rhymes with itself

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. Technique

Correct Answer: B) A way of carrying out a particular task.

12. What is scenes?

Correct Answer: E) Sections of the play with similar setting.

13. A Poem that expresses sorrow or mourning for someone who has died.

Correct Answer: C) Elegy.

14. Instead of a paragraph, a chunk of lines in poetry are called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

15. How many syllables? elephant

Correct Answer: C) 3.

16. A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like" or "as":

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

17. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

18. Repeating sounds, words, phrases or lines in a poem

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

19. A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

20. Sestina

Correct Answer: D) 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza.