Poetry Terms Quiz 479 (20 MCQs)

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1. A strong regular repeating pattern or movement

Correct Answer: A) Rhythm.

2. What are rows of text in a poem called?

Correct Answer: A) Lines.

3. A "run-on" line that carries over into the next to complete its meaning.

Correct Answer: C) Enjambed line.

4. Poem that has no formal structure, no rhythm, and no rhyme

Correct Answer: B) Free Verse Poetry.

5. Which word means a short poem that expresses personal feelings?

Correct Answer: B) Lyric.

6. The emotional association of a word is called the

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

7. A metrical foot of two syllables, first stressed and second unstressed

Correct Answer: A) Trochee.

8. "The waves beside them danced; ..... "This line is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

9. A poem in which the poet either expresses their feelings or emotions

Correct Answer: B) Lyric poem.

10. A ..... poem tells a story.

Correct Answer: B) Narrative.

11. The symbolic meaning

Correct Answer: B) Figurative meaning.

12. Which connotation is MORE positive? We saw ..... animals in the animal house.

Correct Answer: A) Fascinating.

13. A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

14. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

15. A 14-line lyrical poem

Correct Answer: A) Sonnet.

16. The comparison of two unlike things is called

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

17. The choice of a particular word as opposed to others.

Correct Answer: D) Diction.

18. A couplet is..... lines.

Correct Answer: A) 2.

19. Dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem

Correct Answer: D) Persona.

20. Wise / foolish

Correct Answer: C) Antonyms.