Poetry Terms Quiz 480 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. A group of words or text on one line

Correct Answer: D) Line.

2. An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

3. What is being personified:During the night, the rain yelled at us.

Correct Answer: B) Rain.

4. A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

5. What is this an example of? The leaves danced across the lawn.

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

6. Examples include:metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia

Correct Answer: D) Figurative language.

7. If I say "Chocolate is my kryptonite, " that is an example of a/an ..... to Superman's weakness to kryptonite.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

8. I have a hatShe has a catWe both like bats

Correct Answer: B) Rhyme.

9. "greenery, machintery, scenery" is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

10. The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

11. The ..... of a poem is revealed and supported by all of the other elements.

Correct Answer: B) Theme.

12. Silly Sally sells shells by the seashore is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

13. The use of the same sound to start several words in a row is called

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

14. Dramatic monologue

Correct Answer: A) A long, poetic speech in theater and in plays that is spoken by one character in front of other characters.

15. What vocabulary word means:Important, Famous

Correct Answer: D) Prominent.

16. What is the setting in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) An important part of any story or poem because it explains where and when the events take place.

17. A small part of a larger work. For example, one chapter of a novel or one paragraph of an article.

Correct Answer: B) Excerpt.

18. What is this sentence an example of: "The wind howled during the thunderstorm" ?

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

19. A pair of lines, usually written in the same form

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

20. The feelings created in the reader by the poem; can be affected by the tone

Correct Answer: C) Mood.