Poetry Terms Quiz 264 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Gives human qualities to a nonhuman subject

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

2. The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

Correct Answer: C) Metonemes.

3. Describe one thing as if it were something else

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

4. "If you think you can do it, you can do it." is an example of

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

5. The voice behind a poem

Correct Answer: C) Speaker.

6. Explicate

Correct Answer: A) Analyze in detail.

7. What is a concrete poem?

Correct Answer: B) A poem written in the shape of what the poem is about.

8. What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words?

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

9. The following is an example of which poetic device? "Three grey geese in a green field grazing, Grey were the geese and green was the grazing"

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

10. Using word to paint a picture using your 5 senses.

Correct Answer: D) Imagery.

11. Special phrases

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

12. The repeated use of words or phrases in order to emphasize a point is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

13. To walk heavily or slowly

Correct Answer: B) Plod.

14. Langston Hughes wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, For when dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow" This stanza is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

15. Call it a day, Hit the sack are examples of .....

Correct Answer: C) Idioms.

16. Common in poetry, which of the following is a figurative device that compares two things with "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

17. Of the following sentences, which contains the best example of alliteration?

Correct Answer: D) Nick's nephew needed some new notebooks.

18. Franklin's heart is gold

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

19. Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken This line contains the following:

Correct Answer: C) Cesura.

20. A poem with a shape that creates a picture.

Correct Answer: C) Concrete poem.