Poetry Terms Quiz 265 (20 MCQs)

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1. What poem is usually narrative, which means they tell a story, and arranged in 4 line quatrains with an ABAB rhyme scheme?

Correct Answer: D) Ballad.

2. Successions of similar sounds:repetition of first consonant sound of a word

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

3. Which of the following statements best demonstrates Rhyme?

Correct Answer: C) I will not eat them in a houseI will not eat them with a mouse!.

4. Syntax refers to .....

Correct Answer: C) The order of words in a sentence.

5. A poem traditionally from Ireland that is often silly, funny, or rude with a rhyme scheme of aabba

Correct Answer: B) Limerick.

6. What type of poem tell a story in verse and likely has characters, a setting, plot, conflict, and theme?

Correct Answer: B) Narrative.

7. Compare unlike things without using like or as

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

8. Putting 2 opposite things side by side for effect; it makes the contrast more obvious.

Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition.

9. A stanza is a

Correct Answer: B) Group of lines in a poem.

10. Which term means giving human characteristics to non-human things?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

11. The following is an example of what:The fingertips of the rain tapped on my window.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

12. A noun denoting a material object rather than an abstract quality, state, or action, e.g. dog, building, tree, is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Concrete noun.

13. I am a heel breaking the ground.

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

14. What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? The MMA fighter went after his opponent like a lion chasing a zebra.

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

15. A line of poetry containing 10 syllables, one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable; also known as blank verse

Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter.

16. Poetry can be understood:

Correct Answer: C) On both a literal and figurative level.

17. 'I knew you'd love your gaudy doll'Is the word 'gaudy'

Correct Answer: B) An adjective.

18. What type of figurative language is shown? Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

19. One measure of a rhythmic pattern such as one iamb, one trochee .....

Correct Answer: A) Foot.

20. The boing of a spring

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.