Poetry Terms Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. A ..... is like a paragraph but for poetry.

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

2. The literal dictionary definition of a word

Correct Answer: C) Denotation.

3. A comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

4. Repetition of beginning sounds (Bob's Burger Barn)

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

5. What do you call a three-line stanza?

Correct Answer: D) Tercet.

6. Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

7. 14 line long lyric poems with regular meter (usually iambic pentameter) ABAB CDCD EFEFGG

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

8. Words whose final syllables almost rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Partial rhyme.

9. An internal struggle within the character about how to handle a problem.

Correct Answer: E) Inner conflict.

10. A line made up of four feet

Correct Answer: A) Tetrameter.

11. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

Correct Answer: C) Meter.

12. Words whose sounds imitate their meaning

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

13. This is the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens or exists.

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

14. What literary term is this?"her face was like a light, "

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

15. The repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

16. Which of the following is NOT a poetry term we have discussed?

Correct Answer: B) Haiku.

17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

18. This sentence is an example of what: "I've seen this movie a thousand times."

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

19. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character is

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

20. A reference to mythological, literary, biblical, etc

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.