Poetry Terms Quiz 496 (20 MCQs)

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1. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next is .....

Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme.

2. The way lines rhyme in a stanza of poetry, like ababcc

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

3. Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

4. What is a paragraph?

Correct Answer: B) Sentences that are grouped together.

5. What type of rhyme scheme is demonstrated in the example 'The sky is blue, so bright and clear'?

Correct Answer: D) Couplet.

6. The narrator of the poem is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

7. Line structure can be best defined as .....

Correct Answer: C) When a line of a poetry stops and a new line begins.

8. A word that imitates the sound that it represents

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

9. "Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me" contains .....

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

10. A type of literature that focuses on creating powerful emotions in the reader.

Correct Answer: B) Poetry.

11. "Tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession of it." This is an example of what poetic term?

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

12. A scene or passage in a work evoking pity, sorrow, or compassion in the audience or reader

Correct Answer: D) Pathos.

13. I wish that date would fade from memory.

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

14. A poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing that isn't present with an exclamation.

Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe.

15. What rhyme scheme is an ode?

Correct Answer: B) ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH.

16. A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

17. A figure of speech in which an exaggerated statement is made.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

18. Figurative language in which a paradox contains a direct contradiction. Ex:Jumbo shrimp

Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron.

19. The author's attitude or feeling about the text.

Correct Answer: D) Tone.

20. What is the poet's attitude about the subject or topic in a poem?

Correct Answer: B) Tone.