Poetry Terms Quiz 49 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a slant rhyme in poetry?

Correct Answer: B) A near rhyme or partial rhyme where the sounds are similar but not identical.

2. The fire exit signs indicate or ..... were to go if there is a fire exit.

Correct Answer: A) Shows.

3. ..... is is a regular rhythm in a poem.

Correct Answer: D) Meter.

4. True or false:a word always rhymes with itself

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. Technique

Correct Answer: B) A way of carrying out a particular task.

6. What is scenes?

Correct Answer: E) Sections of the play with similar setting.

7. A Poem that expresses sorrow or mourning for someone who has died.

Correct Answer: C) Elegy.

8. Instead of a paragraph, a chunk of lines in poetry are called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Stanza.

9. How many syllables? elephant

Correct Answer: C) 3.

10. A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like" or "as":

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

11. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.

Correct Answer: B) Rhythm.

12. Repeating sounds, words, phrases or lines in a poem

Correct Answer: A) Repetition.

13. A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

14. Sestina

Correct Answer: D) 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza.

15. The character who is the voice of the poem (usually not the author; sometimes this character is a part of the poem OR outside of the poem

Correct Answer: B) Speaker.

16. A type of lyric poem that addresses broad, serious themes such as justice, truth, or beauty.

Correct Answer: A) Ode.

17. What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

18. Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

19. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as or as if

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

20. Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what sound device?

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.