Poetry Terms Quiz 176 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of an initial word in successive lines of poetry.

Correct Answer: B) Anaphora.

2. A poem that expresses the personal thought and feelings of a speaker.

Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem.

3. A poem with no regular rhythm or rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

4. Sound words

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

5. The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (dark, dastardly deeds)

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

6. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

7. When the SOUND of a word imitates its meaning.

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

8. A comparison between two dissimilar things that is stated as fact

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

9. Meter, as defined in poetry, is:

Correct Answer: B) Poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

10. What is the definition of repetition?

Correct Answer: C) The act of doing or saying something again or repeatedly.

11. Poem with a regular pattern of meter or rhyme (AKA open form)

Correct Answer: C) Free Verse.

12. The patterns of rhymes in a poem

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

13. A form of poetry that tells a story and has more feelings

Correct Answer: C) Narrative.

14. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (ex. Sizzle, pow).

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

15. The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

16. Words that do not exactly rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) Slant Rhyme.

17. A poem of only three lines

Correct Answer: B) Tercet.

18. The words look like they should rhyme, but are pronounced differently.(also called sight rhyme).

Correct Answer: A) Eye rhyme.

19. The way a poem is laid out on a page.

Correct Answer: A) Form.

20. Substituting a whole for a whole

Correct Answer: B) Metonymy.