Poetry Terms Quiz 72 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. What is third person point of view?

Correct Answer: B) The speaker or narrator tells the story about other characters.

2. An expressive use of language.

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

3. Stanza with 8 lines

Correct Answer: C) Octave.

4. A direct comparison of two different things

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

5. Which poetry term is being used in this example?Icy Hot

Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron.

6. Refers to poetry written without rhyme, especially if that poetry is written in iambic pentameter.

Correct Answer: C) Blank verse.

7. Pairs of lines that rhyme are called

Correct Answer: C) Couplets.

8. Comparison using like or as

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

9. Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

10. A story can have more than one theme?

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short unstressed and one stressed.

Correct Answer: A) Anapest.

12. The repeating of word, phrases, or lines in a poem.

Correct Answer: C) Repetition.

13. ..... is a unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word

Correct Answer: B) SYLLABLE.

14. Concrete

Correct Answer: A) Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects in pictures.

15. Repetition of sounds at the end of words; creates a song-like quality.

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

16. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme.

17. What is this an example of? I am going to die if I can't have a phone.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole.

18. "spring up like dandelions" This line is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

19. Same end sound as anothertall/fall, fun/run

Correct Answer: A) Rhyme.

20. This is rhyme that ends in similar but not exact sounds. (prove and love )

Correct Answer: D) Slant rhyme.