Poetry Terms Quiz 220 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is an example of assonance?

Correct Answer: B) Travel, animosity, amber.

2. What do we call a two line stanza?

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

3. Which form of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

4. Occurs when rhyming words come within the lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme.

5. A narrative poem always includes all of the following elements, except .....

Correct Answer: A) A mysterious villain.

6. Group of lines in poem is called:

Correct Answer: A) In Room.

7. The repetition of a word or phrase in a poem

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

8. What is a volta?

Correct Answer: A) The shift or point of dramatic change in a poem.

9. In poetry, each ..... is like a sentence.

Correct Answer: C) Line.

10. A group of lines arranged together. Is a division of a poem consisting of lines arranged together. Many kinds Ex Cupolet, Triplet, Quatrain)

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

11. The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. This sentence is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

12. Painting a picture with words is called

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

13. If one uses hyperbole, he or she tends to .....

Correct Answer: A) Overexaggerate.

14. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas used for emphasis in writing

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

15. What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

16. A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse

Correct Answer: C) Stanza.

17. Which term means the author's/poet's attitude about a topic (positive, negative, or neutral)?

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

18. A 5 line poem with a set structure.

Correct Answer: C) Clinquin.

19. The poet's attitude in style or expression toward the subject or towards the audience (ex) loving, ironic, bitter, solemn)

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

20. In the poem, repeating the phrase "kingdom by the sea" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) A refrain.