Poetry Terms Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

2. This term refers to the literal or dictionary definition of a word.

Correct Answer: D) Denotation.

3. A repeating pattern of rhythm and rhyme throughout a poem

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

4. An expression that most people understand but is not meant to be taken literally.

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

5. The use of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence more than once

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

6. Words, phrases, or impressions that are not interpreted logically or literally and have cultural connotations

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

7. Using a word or a phrase in more than one place for effect.

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

8. BOOM!

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

9. Description using the 5 senses

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

10. A 4 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme such as ABBA, ABAB, or AABB

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

11. Poetry that tells a story $\rightarrow$ free verse

Correct Answer: B) False.

12. His eyes are dark pieces of coal.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

13. Agreeable sounds that are easy to articulate

Correct Answer: A) Euphony.

14. An audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables.

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

15. The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story.

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

16. Which is the best example of internal rhyme?

Correct Answer: D) "rubbery blubbery macaroni".

17. Very spread out or scattered

Correct Answer: A) Diffuse.

18. Lyric Poem

Correct Answer: B) Poem of songlike quality.

19. "Sound words;" words which try to imitate sounds

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

20. When an object or animal is given human qualities.

Correct Answer: D) Personification.