Poetry Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the best synonym for "perish" ?

Correct Answer: B) Die.

2. How does the imagery in Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 75 support the overall theme?

Correct Answer: A) Writing his love's name in the sand is temporary, but his words on paper will last forever.

3. Why does the narrator say she can't be the shepherd's love?

Correct Answer: A) Because life and love does not last.

4. Who is the god of thunder and rain?

Correct Answer: C) Indra.

5. Personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia are all .....

Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language.

6. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "Outside, /A few cars hissing past, /Fog hanging like old/Coats between the trees."

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia and simile.

7. A nine line stanza is called

Correct Answer: C) Spenserian.

8. A ..... is a funny five line poem with a rhyme pattern of AABBA.

Correct Answer: C) Limerick.

9. The writer's attitude about their subject

Correct Answer: C) Tone.

10. Slanted language

Correct Answer: C) Figurative language.

11. Words that add musical quality to the poem

Correct Answer: C) Sound Devices.

12. Indra made ..... fall.

Correct Answer: B) Rain.

13. What is the writing style:Prose?

Correct Answer: A) Written in paragraph form and does not rhyme.

14. Of Homer's two epics, this is known as the journey epic.

Correct Answer: C) The Odyssey.

15. Which of these is NOT a Romantic poet?

Correct Answer: C) Owen.

16. What type of figurative language is shown?Her smile was as bright as sunshine.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

17. Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

18. What is a pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables?

Correct Answer: D) Beat.

19. Which writer said, "Freedom's just an illusion, that's my conclusion?"

Correct Answer: C) J. Cole.

20. If the baby rests a little longer, she will grow .....

Correct Answer: C) Strong.