Poetry Terms Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables (blade, maze, take)

Correct Answer: D) Assonance.

2. Physical structure of the poem; length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition

Correct Answer: D) Form.

3. What is the definition of imagery in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) Descriptive words that help the reader picture what is happening.

4. A ..... is "a word that has the same sound but a different meaning as another word" .

Correct Answer: A) Homophone.

5. Fairly self-explanatory-it's the process of repeating certain words or phrases.

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

6. The repetition of vowels sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables.

Correct Answer: B) Assonance.

7. What is an idiom?

Correct Answer: B) A common expression that makes no sense unless you know its figurative meaning.

8. The repetition of consonant sounds within words

Correct Answer: D) Consonance.

9. A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Correct Answer: A) Ballad.

10. Which of these quotes is an example of personification?

Correct Answer: C) "The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there".

11. "When the sky rages, I'll hold them" ~ MEDEA

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

12. A rhythmical pause in a poetic line

Correct Answer: B) Cutting.

13. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it.

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

14. A unit of measure of two or three syllables that contain at least one stressed syllable

Correct Answer: A) Foot.

15. A form with an unusual shape or pattern

Correct Answer: A) Irregular.

16. A poem's structure is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Form.

17. "The sun is a light bulb in the sky" is an example of what type of figurative language?

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

18. Rhyme schemes are labeled with .....

Correct Answer: C) Letters (A, B, C).

19. Who wrote "The Listeners" ?

Correct Answer: C) Walter de la Mare.

20. Expressing the writers emotion, usually briefly.

Correct Answer: A) Lyric.