Poetry Terms Quiz 454 (20 MCQs)

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1. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by a rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

2. Poetry that is free from rhyme, meter, and rhythm is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Free Verse.

3. Why might a poet end a line in enjambment?

Correct Answer: D) To help increase the rhythm of the poem and keep it flowing to the next line.

4. An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it. Which below is an idiom?

Correct Answer: D) All choices are idioms.

5. Acrostic poems are best described as

Correct Answer: B) Poems where the lines are arranged so the first letter in each line spell out a word.

6. A lyric poem expresses the personal thoughts and feeling of a speaker.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. One of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sound.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

8. This is the way in which the words or lines are arranged on a page

Correct Answer: C) Form.

9. The use of language that is visually descriptive and appeals to the senses.

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

10. Poetry that is free from regular meter, rhyme, rhythm and fixed forms is .....

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

11. Facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid

Correct Answer: A) Evidence.

12. What is the poetry term for the repetition of beginning consonant sounds?

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

13. The words of the poem "darkest evening of the year" and "dark and deep" create what kind of MOOD in the poem?

Correct Answer: A) A dark, mysterious mood.

14. End rhyme is where the rhyming words are at the ..... of lines?

Correct Answer: C) End.

15. A group of lines in a poem $\rightarrow$ tone

Correct Answer: B) False.

16. The appearance of words on the page

Correct Answer: C) Form.

17. Repeating patterns of sound in poems (the "beat" of the poem)

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

18. A reference to another work of literature, work of art, historical event, or pop culture in a story or poem is .....

Correct Answer: C) An allusion.

19. Consonance is the repeating of consonants.

Correct Answer: A) True.

20. Explain the concept of personification in poetry.

Correct Answer: B) Personification is the literary technique of giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.