Poetry Terms Quiz 254 (20 MCQs)

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1. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

2. This is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.

Correct Answer: A) Denotation.

3. A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines (like the chorus of a song)

Correct Answer: C) Refrain.

4. Why is it important that the mask "hides cheeks and shades eyes" instead of nose, teeth, ears, etc?

Correct Answer: B) These parts of the face are vital for making expressions of emotion.

5. "Lurk late ..... Sing Sin ..... Jazz June" are examples of .....

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

6. The repetition of initial consonant sounds:Susie sold sea shells down by the seashore.

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

7. The poem is told from the point of view of the .....

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

8. The poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns of meter or rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Free verse.

9. A comparison of two things that does NOT use like or as

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

10. Words with the same ending syllables (bat, cat, rat, KitKat)

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

11. Repetition of sounds at the ends of words, can be at the end of the lines or within the lines

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

12. The author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the CONTRAST between the two to compare them.

Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition.

13. A 4-line poem with one of several schemes (also a stanza in a longer poem); the usual rhyme schemes include ABCB, AABB or ABAB

Correct Answer: A) Quatrain.

14. John is a sheep

Correct Answer: B) John is a follower, not a leader.

15. Mood refers to .....

Correct Answer: D) The emotional setting of a text.

16. The feeling or idea associated with a word.

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

17. What is the purpose of narrative poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Tell a story.

18. What ..... were you born?

Correct Answer: B) Year.

19. Match the definition to the word:Anaphora

Correct Answer: B) Repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses.

20. What is a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: D) Simile.