Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Correct Answer: C) Syntax.

2. Which of the following is a characteristic of a poetic conceit?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

3. What phrase best exemplified the Cavalier poets?

Correct Answer: A) Carpe Diem.

4. The metaphysical poets were:

Correct Answer: C) Both a and b.

5. What is this an example of:I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

6. Which poem was a response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd and his love" ?

Correct Answer: B) "The Bait".

7. Donne was a preacher as well as a poet

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. Define personification.

Correct Answer: B) Giving a nonhuman object human characteristics.

9. This is a statement that seems contradictory but nevertheless tells a truth.

Correct Answer: B) Paradox.

10. Donne's foremost passion was for

Correct Answer: A) God.

11. What is the meter of "To His Coy Mistress" ?

Correct Answer: A) Iambic tetrameter.

12. What is metaphysical poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Poetry that questions the nature of reality in a philosophical way.

13. Choose the word that means-Struggle.

Correct Answer: C) Contention.

14. Which poet was one of the Cavalier poets who considered Ben Jonson to be their "literary father" ?

Correct Answer: A) Andrew Marvell.

15. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that is actually true

Correct Answer: B) Paradox.

16. What is syntax?

Correct Answer: A) Structure of words and phrases.

17. Choose the word that means-Ill will; evil intentions.

Correct Answer: D) Malice.

18. Who coined the term "Metaphysical Poets" ?

Correct Answer: A) Samuel Johnson.

19. A type of extended metaphor that compares two very dissimilar things.

Correct Answer: D) Conceit.

20. True or False:All poems must rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) False.