Poetry Terms Quiz 302 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the purpose of personification in poetry?

Correct Answer: D) To give human qualities to non-human things.

2. Which vocabulary word is being defined? The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Correct Answer: C) Rhythm.

3. What is the definition of connotation?

Correct Answer: D) All associated or implied meaninsg of a word.

4. When the expected outcome is different than the actual outcome or appearance is not reality, is the definition of .....

Correct Answer: D) Irony.

5. The bug splatted on my windshield.Is this an example of

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia?.

6. The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people

Correct Answer: C) Dialect.

7. Which is the best definition for the word reveal?

Correct Answer: A) To slowly tell or show.

8. Contrasting words are juxtaposed in order to encompass contrary impressions or ideas.

Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron.

9. "It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ..... ;

Correct Answer: B) Annabel Lee.

10. Which term has the following definition:a comic verse of irregular measure

Correct Answer: D) Doggerel.

11. A phrase, line or stanza that is repeated throughout a poem, often after a stanza.

Correct Answer: B) Refrain.

12. A comparison of two seemingly unlike things

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

13. When a poet exaggerates on purpose for effect

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

14. Poetry written to an established pattern, e.g., a sonnet, limerick, villanelle, pantoum, tritina, sestina, or rondel

Correct Answer: B) Close form.

15. "Two households, both alike in dignity"

Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter.

16. What is an example of simile?

Correct Answer: B) He is as tall as a mountain.

17. Words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

18. A word that sounds like what it represents. Words like "meow, " "oink, " "pop, " or "click."

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

19. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem/song

Correct Answer: A) Refrain.

20. What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg."

Correct Answer: C) She was joking with me.