Poetry Terms Quiz 208 (20 MCQs)

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1. An example of the term "onomatopoeia" is .....

Correct Answer: C) The soda fizzed and popped.

2. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about allusions?

Correct Answer: C) They are usually universally understandable.

3. A group of lines forming a unit in poetry

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

4. What is the regular pattern of rhyming words? Example:AABBCCDD

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme.

5. Alliteration, rhyme, and refrain are all forms of:

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

6. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry"

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

7. What poetic device is this an example of?"You have to stop getting out of bed like you're an oil spill"

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

8. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure, and mimics regular speech is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.

9. Structure means.....

Correct Answer: B) How the poem is written-more like brainstorming or like a list.

10. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?It took me 100 years to finish my homework last night.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

11. "Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

12. Her mind is like a dictionary is an example of a ..... ?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

13. Repeating sounds, vowels OR consonants, that are in the BEGINNING of neighboring words.Example:Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

14. A metaphor carried throughout the text

Correct Answer: C) Extended metaphor.

15. Pattern of rhymes found at the end of each line of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme.

16. Definition:a poem that is written in the physical shape of the subject.

Correct Answer: C) Concrete Poem.

17. Poems that have a pattern of the same sounds at the end of each line (such as ABAB CDCD) have a .....

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme.

18. A short but definite pause within a line of poetry. It is used to create or build tension or suspense

Correct Answer: D) Cutting.

19. The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

20. The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life

Correct Answer: B) Theme.