Poetry Terms Quiz 14 (20 MCQs)

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1. An extreme exaggeration used to suggest strong emotion or create a comic effect.

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

2. Idiom

Correct Answer: B) A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. (It's raining cats and dogs).

3. The use of words with similar end sounds

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

4. A repeated line or group of lines.

Correct Answer: D) Refrain.

5. What do we call long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea?

Correct Answer: E) An ode.

6. The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

7. A comparison that uses the words like or as

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

8. The use of words whose endings sound alike

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

9. Short verse intended to express the emotions of the author, sometimes set to music

Correct Answer: B) Lyric.

10. Understatement

Correct Answer: D) The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

11. A rhyme happens when .....

Correct Answer: C) Words have the same ending sound.

12. Epics typically involve gods and heroes.

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. An expression where the lteral meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

14. Which of the following is the definition of a metaphor?

Correct Answer: C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else.

15. Repetition

Correct Answer: A) Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis.

16. An expressive non-literal use of language

Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech.

17. I am the sun I am the moon I am the light I am the dark is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

18. What is "a song like, narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain" ?

Correct Answer: D) Ballad.

19. "The night of the LIVING DEAD" is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

20. A warning or clue about what is going to happen

Correct Answer: C) Foreshadow.