Poetry Terms Quiz 37 (20 MCQs)

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1. Slam poetry is

Correct Answer: D) Poetry that is performed and includes writing, competition and an audience.

2. Why do poets use alliteration in poetry?

Correct Answer: A) To create mood, rhythm, to make you laugh, or make you remember.

3. When writing about a poem you put the title in quotation marks

Correct Answer: A) True.

4. A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.

Correct Answer: A) Parody.

5. A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

Correct Answer: D) Dactyl.

6. What kind of poem is "The Odyssey" ?

Correct Answer: C) Epic.

7. The feeling the poet is trying to covey

Correct Answer: A) Mood.

8. The overarching structure of the poem is the .....

Correct Answer: C) Form.

9. Define tone

Correct Answer: D) The author's attitude toward his subject matter or work.

10. "Water is cheaper than diamonds, yet humans need water, not diamonds, to survive."

Correct Answer: B) Paradox.

11. Comparison of unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

12. A word that sounds like what it means.

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

13. Which term is this the definition for:Is set my the authors atitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. It is created by diction and detail.

Correct Answer: D) Tone.

14. The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object.

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

15. What does imagery in poetry aim to do?

Correct Answer: B) Evoke sensory responses.

16. The word 'thud', is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

17. A metaphor that covers an entire work, such as a poem is .....

Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor.

18. The longest river in the United States. It flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

Correct Answer: C) Mississippi.

19. This type of poem has a musical quality

Correct Answer: A) Lyric.

20. What is the definition of the term:Rhyme Scheme?

Correct Answer: E) The pattern of rhyme determined by looking at end rhyme in lines and stanzas of poetry.