Poetry Terms Quiz 70 (20 MCQs)

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1. The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

2. What is the definition of onomatopoeia?

Correct Answer: A) The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

3. Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat

Correct Answer: C) Assonance.

4. What is the definition of the term:End Rhyme?

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry.

5. A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.Example:ABABAB

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

6. It is a poem of 14 lines

Correct Answer: C) Sonnet.

7. What is the feeling an author creates for the reader while reading?

Correct Answer: C) Mood.

8. A word with the opposite meaning of another word

Correct Answer: D) Antonym.

9. A simple poem written about a person

Correct Answer: C) Bio-poem.

10. A five-line stanza

Correct Answer: A) Cinquain.

11. The repetition of VOWEL sound.

Correct Answer: D) Assonance.

12. ..... is a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect. X is Y.

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

13. A phrase or expression where the actual meaning is very different from the literal meaning.

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

14. Is a comparison of two things using the words like or as.

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

15. Which term describes text that gives human characteristics to non-human items and animals?

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

16. What device is used here: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..... "

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

17. Passing reference to another work

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

18. This figure of speech is used when a part or pieces represent a whole.

Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche.

19. The repetition of the initial consonant sounds

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

20. A 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter

Correct Answer: D) Sonnet.