Poetry Quiz 33 (20 MCQs)

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1. A three line poem with a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. Often about nature and doesn't rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) Haiku.

2. The example highlighted below is an example of?The morning sun smiled down on the children.

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

3. What war did Wilfred Owen fight in?

Correct Answer: B) WW1.

4. What word could best be used to describe the tone of the speaker in the poem "The Nymphs reply to the Shepherd" ?

Correct Answer: B) Pessimistic/honest.

5. ' And sometimes, she said, he must have wonderedwhich had been the better way to die.'

Correct Answer: B) Kamikaze.

6. What is the topic of a poem?

Correct Answer: B) What the poem is mostly about.

7. The bees buzz near my ear.

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

8. "Will't please you sit and look at her?" is from which poem?

Correct Answer: A) My Last Duchess.

9. What is NOT TRUE about inferences?

Correct Answer: D) An inference is a random guess with no supporting evidence.

10. 'We are bombarded by the empty air'

Correct Answer: B) Storm on the Island.

11. What type of writing was most common during the time period?

Correct Answer: B) Poetry.

12. "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

13. Poetry should always be read at least twice. Once for its literal meaning and twice for understanding of

Correct Answer: B) Theme.

14. Symbols can lead to an understanding of a story's

Correct Answer: C) Theme.

15. What is a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next?

Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme.

16. The climax of a story .....

Correct Answer: B) Is a turning point or point of greatest intensity.

17. The use of words whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (zipped)

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

18. It is the feeling or the atmosphere thatthe reader gets when he is reading a text.

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

19. Which line in the poem indicates that the soldiers are marching towards their death?

Correct Answer: B) Into the valley of Death.

20. A sharp contrast of opposites.

Correct Answer: C) Antithesis.