Poetry Terms Quiz 380 (20 MCQs)

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1. Did you know that "listen" and "silent" are ..... ?

Correct Answer: A) Anagrams.

2. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

3. A pair of rhyming lines is called:

Correct Answer: D) A couplet.

4. An expression that means something different than what it says.

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.

5. The library was an ocean of books. Metaphor?

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

6. The wind whistled through the trees during the storm.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

7. Poetry that does not follow any set form

Correct Answer: D) Free verse.

8. The Petrarchan Sonnet has

Correct Answer: C) One octave, one sesset.

9. Rhythmic writing

Correct Answer: A) Poetry.

10. The use of word whose sound suggests its meaning.

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

11. The strong and weak beats of a poem establishes its .....

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

12. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work

Correct Answer: C) Allusion.

13. Which term below means:the grammatical structure and complete idea continue past the end of the line.

Correct Answer: B) Enjambed Line.

14. This has a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

15. A form of metaphor which in mentioning part signifies a whole

Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche.

16. A songlike narrative poem that tells a story

Correct Answer: B) Ballad.

17. Read the line below. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, What type of figurative language or stylistic element is found in this line?

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

18. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

19. Fourteen-line lyric poem

Correct Answer: C) Sonnet.

20. Repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.