Poetry Terms Quiz 72 (20 MCQs)

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1. A line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense run on, without pause, into the next line or lines.

Correct Answer: B) Enjambment.

2. Narrative Poem

Correct Answer: A) A poem that tells a story.-Not an epic:Epics have superhuman or extraordinary happenings, narratives do not.

3. Which word means "the overall feeling for the audience an author creates in his or her writing ..... also known as atmosphere" ?

Correct Answer: C) Mood.

4. Which term means a 14 line poem that follows a set meter and rhyme scheme?

Correct Answer: D) Sonnet.

5. ..... refers to a pause within a line of verse.

Correct Answer: D) Cutting.

6. A metaphor that does not tell us directly that one thing is something else; instead it uses words that suggest the nature of the comparison

Correct Answer: A) Implied metaphor.

7. What is third person point of view?

Correct Answer: B) The speaker or narrator tells the story about other characters.

8. An expressive use of language.

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

9. Stanza with 8 lines

Correct Answer: C) Octave.

10. A direct comparison of two different things

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

11. Which poetry term is being used in this example?Icy Hot

Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron.

12. Refers to poetry written without rhyme, especially if that poetry is written in iambic pentameter.

Correct Answer: C) Blank verse.

13. Pairs of lines that rhyme are called

Correct Answer: C) Couplets.

14. Comparison using like or as

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

15. Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

16. A story can have more than one theme?

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short unstressed and one stressed.

Correct Answer: A) Anapest.

18. The repeating of word, phrases, or lines in a poem.

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

19. ..... is a unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word

Correct Answer: B) SYLLABLE.

20. Concrete

Correct Answer: A) Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects in pictures.