Poetry Terms Quiz 91 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words (lovely lonely lights)

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

2. What is the definition of the term:Onomatopoeia?

Correct Answer: B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr).

3. If a phrase, word, or sound are used more than once in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

4. The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

5. Poetry that does not have to follow a specific form or rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

6. Identify the couplet:2 lines that have end rhyme!

Correct Answer: C) The boat was not afloat.

7. The voice telling the poem

Correct Answer: A) Speaker.

8. When the words at the ends of the lines rhyme. Also known as external rhyme

Correct Answer: B) End rhyme.

9. It is the repetition of vowel sounds in words.

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

10. Words that imitate the sounds they make

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

11. Repeated sounds at the end of lines of poetry

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme.

12. Speech patterns used in specific regions

Correct Answer: D) Dialect.

13. Four lines in a sonnet or in any poem

Correct Answer: B) Quatrain.

14. The novels we read are .....

Correct Answer: A) Prose.

15. This is when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar.

Correct Answer: A) Parallelism.

16. What type of poem has 14 lines written in a certain meter and with a special rhyme scheme?

Correct Answer: D) Sonnet.

17. Figure of speech intentionally used to make a situation seem less important it really is

Correct Answer: B) Understatement.

18. A word that is used more than one time in a line is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

19. Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be .....

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

20. This ..... you will be learning subtraction

Correct Answer: C) Week.