Poetry Terms Quiz 401 (20 MCQs)

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1. The "paragraphs" of poetry that group lines together.

Correct Answer: C) Stanza.

2. What is the definition of 'stanza' in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) A group of lines that form a unit within a poem.

3. It is the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words.

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

4. A phrase that is used excessively and has become a bit meaningless and even irritating.

Correct Answer: C) Cliche.

5. The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next without a pause is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Enjambment.

6. The dictionary meaning of a word. An example:Home:The pace where one lives permanently, esp. as a member of a family or household.

Correct Answer: D) Denotation.

7. Ethan's smile is a mile wide.

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

8. Internal rhyme vs external rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme is when words rhyme WITHIN the same line and external rhyme are when words rhyme on the ENDS of lines.

9. An element that writers use to make their writing more interesting and expressive.

Correct Answer: A) Figurative language.

10. What is a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables?

Correct Answer: A) Meter.

11. Quatrain is .....

Correct Answer: C) A four line stanza.

12. A contradiction that is nevertheless true

Correct Answer: A) Paradox.

13. Something in the world of the senses; sign for something else

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

14. Didactic poetry

Correct Answer: D) Poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching.

15. Words that sound like what they are

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

16. Shape poetry in which the meaning or message is partly or wholly conveyed through its shape

Correct Answer: A) Concrete poetry.

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

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

18. A poem that may have rhyme, but their shapes and patterns may be unusual

Correct Answer: A) Open/irregular.

19. Choose the word with the most positive connotation.

Correct Answer: B) Chat.

20. One of the rows of words

Correct Answer: A) Line (verse).