Poetry Terms Quiz 156 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do you call a run on line of poetry that carries on to the next line of a poem

Correct Answer: B) Enjambment.

2. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse!"is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

3. The repetition of the same sounds at the end of a word

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

4. Metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of .....

Correct Answer: A) Figurative language.

5. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

Correct Answer: C) Figurative.

6. Expresses the feelings of a single speaker, using melodic language, imagery, rhythm, and sound devices to express emotions

Correct Answer: B) Lyric poetry.

7. All poems have to rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) False.

8. Types of Stanzas:A three-line stanza is .....

Correct Answer: B) Triplet.

9. Word choice and usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses:

Correct Answer: B) Diction.

10. Although the box was light as a feather, Jermey refused to carry it.

Correct Answer: B) Cliche.

11. Giving human characteristics to things that aren't human

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

12. What is "language that appeals to the five senses" ?

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

13. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of following or closely connected words.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

14. If the poem's ending words rhyme .....

Correct Answer: A) It is end rhyme.

15. A poem that doesn't rhyme, but it uses iambic pentameter

Correct Answer: B) Blank verse.

16. Which is Personification

Correct Answer: C) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens).

17. The moon sang me a lullaby

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

18. A three line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven.

Correct Answer: D) Haiku.

19. A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythological, or literary person, place, event, or work is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

20. A poem that has no rules, rhythm or rhyme is called a-

Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem.