Poetry Terms Quiz 118 (20 MCQs)

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1. This is giving non-human things human qualities.

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

2. Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

3. A poem usually about nature

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

4. Person, place, thing or event used to represent something else

Correct Answer: B) Symbol.

5. A group of words sectioned off together ..... like a paragraph in an essay

Correct Answer: D) Stanza.

6. Which term refers to a line of poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Verse.

7. A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Correct Answer: A) Haiku.

8. Which word below is not an onomatopoeia?

Correct Answer: B) Cow.

9. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a word.

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

10. A complex poem about a serious subject

Correct Answer: D) Ode.

11. A-a-a-a-; a-b-a-b; a-b-b-a; a-a-b-a; etc.

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

12. Which of the following is an example of simile?

Correct Answer: C) Her voice is like an angel.

13. Is the repetition of consonant sounds at thebeginnings of words

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

14. Which one is NOT an example of a metaphor?

Correct Answer: A) The grass is green and the sky is blue.

15. Read the following line: "Warm tears rolled down my cheeks." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?

Correct Answer: D) Sense of touch.

16. Rhyme that occurs on the end of the line

Correct Answer: B) End rhyme.

17. The central or main idea of the poem is .....

Correct Answer: C) Theme.

18. A single line in poetry.

Correct Answer: A) Verse.

19. A title given to an outstanding U.S. poet by the Library of Congress, usually for one or two years

Correct Answer: D) Poet laureate.

20. ..... is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing.

Correct Answer: A) Mood.