Poetry Terms Quiz 236 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Independent and not controlled by outside forces

Correct Answer: B) Autonomous.

2. What vocab word from this week is also in the definition of alliteration?

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

3. A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

Correct Answer: A) Anapest.

4. The writer's choice of words

Correct Answer: B) Diction.

5. When a writer uses an extreme exaggeration, he or she is writing a(n) .....

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

6. What vocabulary word means:Unwilling, Hesitant

Correct Answer: D) They hesitate.

7. The ..... is the voice of the poem

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

8. Tools that writers use to create images, or "paint pictures, " in the mind of the reader

Correct Answer: C) Figures of Speech.

9. The return of a word, phrase, or sentence for effect

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

10. ..... is a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

11. Poetry is similar to prose because .....

Correct Answer: A) They both have characters and settings.

12. An expression that has been overused and has lost its original meaning "Time heals all wounds"

Correct Answer: A) Cliche.

13. Triple meter

Correct Answer: D) 3 beats per measure.

14. A group of lines in a poem. Like a paragraph in a story

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

15. The use of language to create beautiful or forceful pictures in the reader's mind.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery (imagenes literarias).

16. A rhyme in which two words are alike in some sounds, but do not exactly rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Slant Rhyme.

17. A comparison of two things where one things is said to BE the other

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

18. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning, such as emotional associations, is .....

Correct Answer: B) Connotation.

19. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as.

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

20. Which word is defined as "the actual meaning of a word or phrase" ?

Correct Answer: C) Literal meaning.