Poetry Terms Quiz 497 (20 MCQs)

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1. If you are looking at DICTION in poetry, what are you focusing on?

Correct Answer: A) Word choice.

2. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the author tries to create

Correct Answer: A) Tone.

3. Poem that tells a story; contains characters, conflict, plot .....

Correct Answer: B) Narrative poem.

4. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Correct Answer: D) Paradox.

5. ..... is the repetition of identical sounds located at the ends of words. They can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds.

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

6. The suggested meaning of a word or phrase.

Correct Answer: D) Connotation.

7. A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung.

Correct Answer: B) Ballad.

8. Comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

9. Antecedent

Correct Answer: C) The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.

10. A stanza of four lines, usually the lines alternate in rhyme (ABAB)

Correct Answer: C) Quatrain.

11. Choose the answer that uses a metaphor.

Correct Answer: B) "Your blue eyes are sapphires.".

12. What is connotation in poetry?

Correct Answer: D) Ideas or meanings associated with a word (in addition to dictionary definition).

13. Comparison of two unlike things using a signal word such as like, as, or resembles

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

14. A rythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

Correct Answer: B) Meter.

15. The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example:I wandered lonely as a cloud.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

16. Style of poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

17. What is the repeating of lines, words or verses in a poem?

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

18. An object or action that stands for something beyond itself

Correct Answer: A) Symbol.

19. Using the same word, line, phrase, or stanza two or more times in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

20. Which term means the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

Correct Answer: D) Alliteration.