Poetry Terms Quiz 252 (20 MCQs)

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1. 2nd Person Point of View

Correct Answer: B) Key words:you, your.

2. A stanza or poem that contains eight lines

Correct Answer: C) Octave.

3. What is a poem?

Correct Answer: A) A collection of words that expresses an emotion or an idea.

4. Using letters of the alphabet in order to label the pattern of rhymes in a poem; for example:ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme.

5. A pattern of rhyming words at the end of a line.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme.

6. What is a cliche?

Correct Answer: D) An overused phrase or saying.

7. Ponyboy and Johnny read "Gone With the Wind"

Correct Answer: A) Allusion.

8. Lines of poetry made up of 10 syllables, with 5 stressed sounds and 5 unstressed sounds

Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter.

9. "A poem can make a person live forever" is an example of a .....

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

10. Limerick

Correct Answer: A) A very short humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines.

11. The medical care and treatment of the human foot

Correct Answer: A) Podiatry.

12. What is true about free verse poetry?

Correct Answer: D) All of these are true.

13. Line does not end with punctuation; continue to read on to the next line in order to complete the thought

Correct Answer: D) Enjambment.

14. Five-line poems or stanzas with a syllable pattern of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

Correct Answer: A) Cinquain.

15. Which one of these is NOT a narrative type of poetry?

Correct Answer: D) Ode.

16. Writer of a poem

Correct Answer: B) Poet.

17. A comparison between two things using words such as, "like" or "as."Ex:Her smile was like a breath of fresh air.

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

18. Tells a story.

Correct Answer: D) Narrative Poem.

19. A lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure

Correct Answer: A) Ode.

20. A poem that states the poems sadness

Correct Answer: C) Elegy.