Poetry Terms Quiz 250 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Graphical elements do NOT include

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

2. Which term means a two line stanza?

Correct Answer: B) Couplet.

3. Poems should create images in your mind that make you feel connected to the message.

Correct Answer: A) True.

4. Typically, an epic is a short poem.

Correct Answer: B) False.

5. A short, rhyming poem for young children, often telling a short story or describing an interesting character

Correct Answer: C) Nursery rhyme.

6. A refrain is

Correct Answer: C) Repeated.

7. Groups of lines that are set off visually from other lines in a poem, like a paragraph in literature.

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

8. Sonnet that has14 lines/ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean.

9. ..... refers to the act of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast something, or to create an interesting effect.

Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition.

10. A poem that is as much a piece of visual art made with words as it is a work of poetry

Correct Answer: B) Concrete.

11. The repetition of words, phrases, or sentence structures.

Correct Answer: C) Parallelism.

12. Define internal rhyme.

Correct Answer: B) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

13. What is an onomatopoeia and which contains correct examples?

Correct Answer: A) The use of words that sounds suggest the meaning (crash, boom, kerchow).

14. A word that imitates a sound; when you say the word, it sounds like what the word means

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

15. An Idiom is special phrases

Correct Answer: A) True.

16. A long poem written about a famous person or event.

Correct Answer: D) Ballad.

17. A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

Correct Answer: C) Eye Rhyme.

18. What is this is an example of:The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

19. ..... is writing that appeals to sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

20. "Getting cold feet" is an example of what type of figurative language?

Correct Answer: C) Idiom.