Poetry Terms Quiz 85 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Compares 2 things by using like or as

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

2. What is being personified? "Oreo:Milk's favorite cookie!"

Correct Answer: B) Milk.

3. Specific arrangement of a poem

Correct Answer: B) Form.

4. "The stars will cry." The kind of figurative language used here is .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

5. What is the definition of a onomatopoeia?

Correct Answer: C) A word that sounds like how it is said.

6. What is the syllable pattern of a haiku?

Correct Answer: B) 5-7-5.

7. Non-rhyming poetry that usually does not have a regular rhythm or format

Correct Answer: C) Free-verse.

8. "The wind screamed through the night." This is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

9. Specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions

Correct Answer: A) Concrete diction.

10. One line of words.

Correct Answer: A) Line.

11. A form that follows fixed rules

Correct Answer: C) Traditional.

12. Written with "I" as the subject; narrator is part of poem; Pronouns:I, me, we, us, our, mine, my

Correct Answer: A) 1st Person.

13. Building of excitement in a text

Correct Answer: A) Suspense.

14. Which is an example of repetition

Correct Answer: B) Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

15. A 14 line poem, usually rhymed with a very specific pattern, written in iambic pentameter is called:

Correct Answer: C) So nice.

16. A comparison between two things that does not us "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

17. Which is the best example of abstract diction?

Correct Answer: C) Justice.

18. A rhyming two-line unit in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Couplet.

19. What is the correct term for the following definition? A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

20. Which word rhymes with all three? butterfly shy multiply

Correct Answer: B) Eye.