Poetry Terms Quiz 306 (20 MCQs)

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1. A stanza with four lines.

Correct Answer: D) Quatrain.

2. What is the definition of metonymy?

Correct Answer: A) Metonymy is the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant.

3. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

4. The pattern of ending rhymes; a different letter of the alphabet is assigned to each rhyme.

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme.

5. The attitudes and feelings associated with a word, may be positive or negative.

Correct Answer: A) Connotation.

6. Stanza means

Correct Answer: B) A single section of a poem.

7. What figurative language is used in this sentence? "Theboy was a statue when the train passed him by"

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

8. A pattern of rhyme at the end of lines in a poem (measured with letters ..... ABC, etc) is called a:

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

9. Words that are opposite

Correct Answer: D) Antonym.

10. Sound effects in poetry can be best defined as .....

Correct Answer: A) The way the words and lines sound to the reader will affect the mood, tone, fluency, and possible even the meaning of the poem.

11. Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

12. A rhythmic group of two lines of verse

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

13. Controlling metaphor

Correct Answer: D) A metaphor that extends throught the work.

14. When the beginning sounds of words are repeated is called:

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.

15. How fast or slow a poem is read. Short sentences speed up; longer sentences slow it down

Correct Answer: A) Pace.

16. The following sentence contains ..... Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

17. A group of words into which a poem or play is divided.

Correct Answer: D) Line.

18. What is it called when the same constant sound is repeated, normally at the beginning of the words.

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

19. What does "personification" mean?

Correct Answer: A) Attribution of human characteristics to a creature, idea, or object.

20. Which is an example of a couplet?

Correct Answer: D) "Panthers in the park / Strangers in the dark".