Poetry Terms Quiz 216 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the tone? "I come here with my injuryTo see your injury.From here on, I fight against what I canAnd what I can't."

Correct Answer: D) Determined.

2. A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or .....

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

3. What is similar to the chorus of a song (the part repeated)?

Correct Answer: B) Refrain.

4. Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to stand for something else.

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

5. ..... is a person who write poetry.

Correct Answer: A) Poet.

6. Giving human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

7. The use of words and phrases that convey how things look, feel, smell, sound and taste.

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

8. On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

9. The pattern of rhyming in a poem; usually identified by assigning letters to each line (ABAA, or ABAB)

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme.

10. Two qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together:

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron.

11. Personification is when

Correct Answer: C) The poet assigns human qualities to something that's not human.

12. A ..... is "a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning" .

Correct Answer: B) Homograph.

13. A ..... is a question, usually humorous, to be solved.

Correct Answer: B) Riddle.

14. A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Correct Answer: B) Acrostic.

15. An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning is

Correct Answer: C) Symbol.

16. What is the definition for synecdoche?

Correct Answer: C) A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent a part.

17. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds of words

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

18. When the intended meaning of a statement differs from the apparent meaning

Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony.

19. Structured poem

Correct Answer: D) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have a regular repeated pattern.

20. Word choice and phrasing in any written or spoken text

Correct Answer: D) Diction.