This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > American Poetry – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Poetry Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which term means read or examine carefully? A) Deplore. B) Outvie. C) Rove. D) Peruse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peruse. 2. A direct comparison between two unlikely objects A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. "In Dream, " the author says, "Hold fast to dreams."Which of the following statement best describes its meaning? A) Hold to dreams before they disappear. B) Life is a broken-winged bird. C) If dreams go, life has no vision or goal. D) Without dreams life is a barren field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If dreams go, life has no vision or goal. 4. Which contemporary American poets have explored beauty despite the suffering and confusion of modern life? A) Joy Harjo, Sandra McPherson and Henri Cole. B) Gary Snyder, Robert Bly and Coleman Barks. C) Arthur Sze and Jane Hirshfield. D) Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joy Harjo, Sandra McPherson and Henri Cole. 5. Giving human characteristics to non-human things is called? A) Simile. B) Humana. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. What is transcendentalism A) Spiritual communion with nature. B) Fear of nature. C) Exploitation of nature. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiritual communion with nature. 7. As it's used, what is the most likely meaning of communion? To him who in the love of nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language; for his gayer hoursShe has a voice of gladness, and a smile A) Burial place or burial chamber. B) Amusement or merriment. C) Deep thought or reflection. D) Close relationship with someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Close relationship with someone or something. 8. What characterizes Arthur Sze's poetry? A) A Zen sensibility and literal, meditative observations. B) An exploration of identity and connection to nature. C) A reverence for nature and a Buddhist sensitivity to impermanence. D) A poetry based on the image and the celebration of beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Zen sensibility and literal, meditative observations. 9. Which sentence best describes the chief characteristics of blank verse? A) It is in iambic pentameter and doesn't rhyme. B) It is always made up of eight syllables and never rhymes. C) It can be in any kind of meter but must never rhyme. D) It is in iambic pentameter and must always rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is in iambic pentameter and doesn't rhyme. 10. Which term means to beat someone in competition? A) Deplore. B) Outvie. C) Rove. D) Clime. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outvie. 11. As it's used, what is the most likely meaning of sepulchre? Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie downWith patriarchs of the infant world ..... with kings, The powerful of the earth ..... the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills A) Reflection or thought. B) Amusement or merriment. C) Close relationship. D) Burial place or chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burial place or chamber. 12. What poetic device is exemplified in the following excerpt? Be comforted; the world is very old, And generations pass, as they have passed, A troop of shadows moving with the sun;Thousands of times has the old tale been told;(from "A Shadow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A) Blank verse. B) Enjambment. C) Iambic pentameter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 13. In the poem, "I, Too" the speaker states he grow strong?What helps his growth? A) He is American. B) He works in the kitchen. C) He eats well. D) He laughs at company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He eats well. 14. What poetic device is exemplified in the following excerpt? Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past?(from "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe) A) Blank verse. B) Enjambment. C) Iambic pentameter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 15. Who wrote the poem Birches? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Robert Frost. C) Allan Poe. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost. 16. Which term means like that of a tyrant? A) Deplore. B) Despotic. C) Sway. D) Sanction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Despotic. 17. Which term means climate region? A) Clime. B) Sanction. C) Strain. D) Sway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clime. 18. Which term means feeling or expressing contempt? A) Sanction. B) Scornful. C) Despotic. D) Outvie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scornful. 19. What is the spiritual focus in contemporary American poetry? A) The exploration of identity and connection with nature. B) The celebration of beauty despite suffering and confusion. C) The relationship between the individual and a timeless essence beyond artistic beauty. D) Meditation on everyday life and human relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The relationship between the individual and a timeless essence beyond artistic beauty. 20. Which of these is the best definition of imagery? A) Anything that is literal. B) Giving a human trait to something non-human. C) Language that appeals to the reader's five senses. D) Descriptions that are not literally true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language that appeals to the reader's five senses. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesAmerican Poetry Quiz 1American Poetry Quiz 3Metaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizProsody QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books