Poetry Terms Quiz 433 (20 MCQs)

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1. Simile or Metaphor:My life is a dream.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

2. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Gives human qualities to something that is nonhuman.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

3. What is the definition of couplet?

Correct Answer: A) Two lines in a row that RHYME.

4. When human qualities are given to non-human objects

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

5. Rime (rhyme)

Correct Answer: D) The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds.

6. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse?

Correct Answer: D) Lyric Poem.

7. A Haiku is.....

Correct Answer: C) Japanese poetry with 3 lines and 17 syllables.

8. Ideas are meanings beyond the literal meaning of the word

Correct Answer: C) Connotation.

9. Part of a word that makes on sound; words can have one or multiple of these

Correct Answer: B) Syllable.

10. A form of dramatic exaggeration

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

11. How the poet wants the reader to feel after reading the poem

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

12. ..... is to make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.

Correct Answer: C) Reveal.

13. A story or narrative in poetic form

Correct Answer: A) Ballad.

14. The shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing

Correct Answer: A) Form.

15. The exploding rice pot was like a volcano erupting. Metaphor?

Correct Answer: B) No.

16. The fallen leaves are cornflakesThat fills the lawn's wide dish, And night and noonThe wind's a spoonThat stirs them with a swish

Correct Answer: D) ABCCB.

17. What is the repetition of internal vowel sounds?

Correct Answer: D) Assonance.

18. An indirect reference to something.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

19. A group of lines throughout the poem ..... somewhat like a paragraph in writing

Correct Answer: A) Stanza.

20. A comparison that suggests that one object is another one, figuratively speaking

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.