Poetry Terms Quiz 309 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

Correct Answer: C) I could nap for three weeks.

2. What is an onomatopeia?

Correct Answer: A) Words that imitate a sound.

3. Reference to person, place, thing, or idea that has historical, cultural, literary, or political significance

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

4. Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

5. Direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

6. I usually feel much ..... when you all succeed and do well.

Correct Answer: A) Satisfaction.

7. "Besides the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Assonance.

8. What is this an example of? Her cheeks are a red rose

Correct Answer: D) Metaphor.

9. A type of figurative language in which human traits are assigned to nonhuman objects

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

10. Rhyming which occurs at the end of the line of poetry

Correct Answer: B) End Rhyme.

11. What is a tribute poem?

Correct Answer: B) A poem that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration to someone or something.

12. ..... is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse. All spoken word has a ..... formed by stressed and unstressed syllables.

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

13. A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or toward an audience

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

14. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:idioms

Correct Answer: D) Expressions that can't be translated directly into another language.

15. What is the definition of irony?

Correct Answer: A) The opposite of what is expected to happen, seen, or be heard.

16. 'Then growling it slunk away' The poet is describing a hurricane. What is this an example of?

Correct Answer: B) Pathetic fallacy.

17. The use of sounds, words, or phrases or whole lines more than once in a poem; used to emphasize

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

18. Our feet squished in the mud.

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

19. An object that is used to represent an idea.

Correct Answer: D) Symbolism.

20. A comparison of two or more things without using "like" or "as" . Example:Jeannie is a fountain of knowledge.

Correct Answer: B) Methaphor.