Poetry Terms Quiz 371 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which term means:a literary work idealizing the rural life

Correct Answer: C) Pastoral.

2. Which answer correctly displays two words that would create a rhyme?

Correct Answer: B) Cat, bat.

3. Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

4. Alliteration can be defined as:

Correct Answer: C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

5. Author repeats a word, line, or phrase for the emphasis.

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

6. Comparison of unlike things using the words LIKE or AS

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

7. What is the term for repetition of a pattern of syllables or sounds in a line, stanza, or poem?

Correct Answer: C) Rhythm.

8. Definition:the repetition of the same sound at the starts of words or phrases that are close together.

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

9. A poem of serious reflection, typically about death.

Correct Answer: D) Elegy.

10. Grouping of two lines of the same metrical length that rhyme

Correct Answer: C) Couplet.

11. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of line of poetry.

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme.

12. An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise

Correct Answer: A) Rhapsody.

13. The use of words to create pictures in your mind

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

14. A unit or group of four lines of verse.

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

15. The author's attitude toward the subject at hand

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

16. Reference to a statement, a person, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

17. Anagram

Correct Answer: D) A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another.

18. When a word imitates the sound of something, it is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

19. Repetition of a consonant sound anywhere in words used closely to one another

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

20. Which of the following is a metaphor?

Correct Answer: C) My hands were ice cubes when I came inside.