Poetry Terms Quiz 498 (20 MCQs)

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1. Antecedent

Correct Answer: C) The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.

2. A stanza of four lines, usually the lines alternate in rhyme (ABAB)

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

3. Choose the answer that uses a metaphor.

Correct Answer: B) "Your blue eyes are sapphires.".

4. What is connotation in poetry?

Correct Answer: D) Ideas or meanings associated with a word (in addition to dictionary definition).

5. Comparison of two unlike things using a signal word such as like, as, or resembles

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

6. A rythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

7. The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example:I wandered lonely as a cloud.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

8. Style of poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

9. What is the repeating of lines, words or verses in a poem?

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

10. An object or action that stands for something beyond itself

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

11. Using the same word, line, phrase, or stanza two or more times in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

12. Which term means the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

13. A ..... girl was crowned Tip-off queen in 2020.

Correct Answer: D) Senior.

14. Reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong

Correct Answer: C) Argument.

15. Explicit means.....

Correct Answer: B) Stated clearly.

16. The opposite meaning of what is intended

Correct Answer: A) Irony.

17. You should ALWAYS pause at a comma when reading.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Poetry not written in traditional meter but still rhythmical

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.

19. Author's attitude towards a subject is called the ....., and the overall feeling a piece of literature creates is its .....

Correct Answer: A) Tone; mood.

20. The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured. Usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.

Correct Answer: B) Foot.