Poetry Terms Quiz 421 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem?

Correct Answer: C) Rhythm.

2. What is a poem that honors a particular person, thing, or event?

Correct Answer: A) An ode.

3. The meaning of rhyme is .....

Correct Answer: B) Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

4. Enjambment can be best defined as .....

Correct Answer: B) The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break:thoughts run on from one line to the next.

5. What provides the rhythm in a sonnet?

Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter.

6. Compares two unlike things by speaking of one thing as if it were another

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

7. A type of rhyme that occurs between two words that are similar in sound, but do not rhyme exactly

Correct Answer: B) Approximate Rhyme.

8. The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

Correct Answer: C) Tone.

9. The repetition of vowel sounds is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Assonance.

10. Some teachers will ask you to Format or ..... your work.

Correct Answer: A) Arrange text into a correct style.

11. A poem that rhymes, expresses and emotion, and has a musical rhythm to it is called a ..... This DOES have a regular rhyming pattern.

Correct Answer: D) Lyric poem.

12. Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing in fixed form?

Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman.

13. A ..... verse poem has the following characteristics:-regular meter-does NOT rhyme-usually used by classical playwrights like Shakespeare

Correct Answer: A) Blank.

14. The way the AUTHOR feels about the subject/words they use

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

15. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in close proximity.

Correct Answer: B) Assonance.

16. An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

17. The voice of a poem

Correct Answer: C) Speaker.

18. Eagles=United Statescross=Christianityred roses=lovelions=power and strengthThese are all examples of:

Correct Answer: C) Symbolism.

19. Iambic pentameter contains ..... feet, each of which contains ..... syllables.

Correct Answer: B) Five, two.

20. Referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional setting that surrounds the readers.

Correct Answer: A) Mood.