Poetry Terms Quiz 290 (20 MCQs)

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1. "word-picture;" an image is a word or group of words that refers to something that can be experienced by the senses

Correct Answer: B) Image.

2. What do we call a song or song-like poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain?

Correct Answer: D) A ballad.

3. What does onomatopoeia mean?

Correct Answer: B) Words that sound like the sound they stand for.

4. "The air is drugged with azalea blossoms" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

5. The dictionary definition of the word.

Correct Answer: A) Denotation.

6. How many stanzas?

Correct Answer: D) 3.

7. A comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as (is, are, was)

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

8. A songlike narrative poem that features repetition and strong meter

Correct Answer: B) Ballad.

9. Part that stands for a whole .....

Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche.

10. Which of these is an example of end rhyme?

Correct Answer: C) "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the Night;".

11. The flow of the beat in a poem, giving poetry a musical feel

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

12. "I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing." -Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

13. A proposal, remark, hint, designed to bring out the opinions or purposes of others:

Correct Answer: D) Feelers.

14. The repetition found at the beginning of consecutive (one after another) phrases, verses, sentences, etc.

Correct Answer: D) Anaphora.

15. Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow. The lines above

Correct Answer: B) Are a heroic couplet.

16. What is another name for the narrator of a poem?

Correct Answer: D) Speaker.

17. Words have the same beginning sound.

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

18. A distinct numbered group of lines within a poem

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

19. Harsh, discordant sounds (k, t, g, b, d, p, ch, sh, s) in words

Correct Answer: B) Cacophony.

20. A long speech delivered by a single character and directed at other characters onstage.

Correct Answer: B) Monologue.