Poetry Terms Quiz 87 (20 MCQs)

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1. This form of poetry consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables .....

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

2. Repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals

Correct Answer: B) Refrain.

3. The implied meaning of a word; opposite of denotation.

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

4. Oxymoron

Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech that combines opposite/contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence').

5. "To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells ..... "

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

6. Acts like a paragraph in prose

Correct Answer: D) Stanza.

7. The voice talking to the reader in a poem

Correct Answer: A) Speaker.

8. The definition of "onomatopoeia" is .....

Correct Answer: B) Words that imitate natural sounds.

9. The following are types of figurative language

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

10. Shorter poem that describes a single event and may be set to music

Correct Answer: B) Ballad poem.

11. Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human.

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

12. The fog was a ghost

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

13. A sentence or sentence fragment in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Line.

14. Which of the following terms is used to measure a poem's rhythm?

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

15. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates the rhythm of lines of poetry.

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

16. Lightning danced across the sky.

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

17. Boom! Bam! Pop! Buzz!

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

18. In poetry a paragraph is called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

19. Personification gives .....

Correct Answer: A) Human qualities to nonhuman things.

20. Literature that ridicules human folly or vice in order to bring about some kind of reform

Correct Answer: B) Satire.