Poetry Terms Quiz 409 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that express more than their literal meaning

Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language.

2. The meter and rhyme of a poem

Correct Answer: C) Prosody.

3. What is a group of lines in poetry called?

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

4. Words that mimic sounds

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

5. Fancy word for contrast; place 2 unlike objects close to each other

Correct Answer: D) Antithesis.

6. Giving human qualities to non living objects

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

7. AABBCCDDEEFF is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme.

8. The speaker of a poem is .....

Correct Answer: C) Identified by tone and context clues.

9. A three-line poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.

Correct Answer: C) Haiku.

10. Repetition of syllables at the end of words, often at the end of a line of poetry, but there are many unique kinds of rhymes.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

11. A form of poetry that tells a story

Correct Answer: D) Narrative poem.

12. Denotation is .....

Correct Answer: B) Literal definition of a word.

13. A sad or thoughtful poem, often lamenting someone's death

Correct Answer: B) Elegy.

14. A type of poetry that includes 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, the third 5 syllables.

Correct Answer: C) Haiku.

15. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am the dream and the hope of the slave."

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

16. Two consecutive lines that have end rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Couplet.

17. The interpretation of a phrase(figure it out)

Correct Answer: B) Figurative.

18. Words, phrases, or ideas in a poem that are repeated

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

19. Her as were as blue as the sky on a mid-summer day.

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

20. What is the definition of a connotation?

Correct Answer: C) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase.