Poetry Terms Quiz 202 (20 MCQs)

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1. The sound of poetry; how it is supposed to be said.

Correct Answer: E) Rhythm.

2. Regular pattern of rhyme, normally charted with letters of the alphabet

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme.

3. Long poem written in stanzas of varying length, meter, and form; usually serious, but can be lighthearted

Correct Answer: A) Ode.

4. A Haiku has five of these and a Sonnet has 14. What are they?

Correct Answer: A) Lines.

5. Which of the following is a euphemism for LYING

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

6. Verse meaning is.....

Correct Answer: A) Denotes a single line of poetry, can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry.

7. What is a Personification?

Correct Answer: C) Giving a nonhuman thing human traits.

8. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back.

Correct Answer: A) True.

9. A quatrain consists of .....

Correct Answer: C) 4 lines.

10. (Similar to the chorus in a song)

Correct Answer: C) Refrain.

11. Two rhyming lines

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

12. The following is an example of which sound device?"Peter piper picked pickled peppers or sally sold sea shells by the seashore"

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

13. A line break is .....

Correct Answer: C) When the author chooses to end one line in a poem and begin another.

14. If two words are close, but they don't rhyme exactly, we call that ..... rhyme.

Correct Answer: A) Slant.

15. A very short and humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: A) Limerick.

16. What is the message that the poet is communicating to the audience, that can be applied to anyone's life?

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

17. A word that has the same ending sound as another word is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

18. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

19. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to a nonhuman object

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

20. Read the following line: "I bought a sour pickle and a bag of salty chips." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?

Correct Answer: C) Sense of taste.