Poetry Terms Quiz 218 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that have the same end sounds

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

2. A poem's narrator

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

3. A type of writing that uses sentences and paragraphs to express ideas

Correct Answer: B) Prose.

4. Which of these is NOT an example of true rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) Fearing failing.

5. Repetition of sound at the ends of words

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

6. The words or subject of a piece of writing

Correct Answer: D) Content.

7. One the second page (p. 553), there's a photograph of .....

Correct Answer: C) Tornado.

8. The beat, sound, and feel of a poem

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

9. This is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning.

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

10. A poem that tells a story is called

Correct Answer: D) Narrative Poem.

11. A fourteen-line lyric poem that is written in iambic pentameter and has a rhyme scheme.

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

12. The pattern in which the last words in lines of poetry rhyme.

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme.

13. Who wrote the Elegies "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" ?

Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman.

14. What is significant about free verse poetry?

Correct Answer: C) It does not have to have a certain structure or rhyming pattern.

15. Which type of writing is written in lines that don't need to have punctuation?

Correct Answer: A) Poetry.

16. A form of imagery when one thing is compared to another using the words "like" or "as."

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

17. Use a dictionary to find the denotative or ..... definition of a word.

Correct Answer: C) Literal.

18. An ..... is a long, narrative poem.

Correct Answer: D) Epic.

19. A thing that stands not only for itself but for something else as well. It is the visible expression of a hidden meaning.

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

20. She is on a roller coaster of emotions.

Correct Answer: C) She is having lots of different feelings.