Questions & Answers
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Exploring the World of Poetry study set below.
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1
Which poetic device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
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A
Assonance
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B
Consonance
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C
Alliteration
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D
Onomatopoeia
2
What is the term for a line of poetry containing ten syllables, typically alternating unstressed and stressed syllables?
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A
Hexameter
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B
Pentameter
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C
Tetrameter
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D
Trimeter
3
Which famous epic poem is attributed to Homer and tells the story of a long and perilous journey home?
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A
The Iliad
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B
The Aeneid
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C
The Odyssey
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D
Beowulf
4
What is a lyric poem, typically of fourteen lines, that follows a specific rhyme scheme and meter?
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A
Haiku
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B
Sonnet
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C
Villanelle
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D
Ballad
5
Who is widely considered the greatest playwright in the English language, also known for his sonnets?
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A
Charles Dickens
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B
William Shakespeare
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C
Jane Austen
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D
Geoffrey Chaucer
6
What is the term for the pattern of rhyme between words, especially at the end of lines of poetry?
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A
Rhythm
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B
Meter
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C
Rhyme Scheme
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D
Stanza
7
Which poet is famous for the line 'Do not go gentle into that good night'?
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A
Robert Frost
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B
Dylan Thomas
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C
T.S. Eliot
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D
W.B. Yeats
8
What is a poem that tells a story, often in a narrative and dramatic style?
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A
Ode
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B
Elegy
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C
Ballad
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D
Limerick
9
Which Japanese poetic form consists of three phrases with a syllable structure of 5, 7, 5?
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A
Tanka
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B
Haiku
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C
Senryu
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D
Renga
10
What poetic device uses words that imitate the sounds they describe?
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A
Metaphor
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B
Simile
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C
Onomatopoeia
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D
Personification
11
Who wrote 'The Raven', a narrative poem famous for its musicality and supernatural theme?
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A
Emily Dickinson
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B
Walt Whitman
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C
Edgar Allan Poe
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D
Sylvia Plath
12
What is a stanza of four lines in a poem, especially one having alternate rhymes?
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A
Couplet
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B
Tercet
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C
Quatrain
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D
Sestet
13
Which poetic movement, flourishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasized subjective experience and imagination?
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A
Realism
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B
Romanticism
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C
Modernism
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D
Symbolism
14
What is the comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
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A
Metaphor
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B
Analogy
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C
Personification
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D
Simile
15
Which poet is known for her introspective and often unconventional style, frequently using dashes and unique capitalization?
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A
Maya Angelou
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B
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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C
Emily Dickinson
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D
Christina Rossetti
16
What is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead?
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A
Ode
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B
Sonnet
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C
Elegy
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D
Pastoral
17
Who is credited with pioneering 'free verse' poetry, characterized by its lack of regular meter and rhyme?
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A
Robert Frost
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B
Emily Dickinson
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C
Walt Whitman
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D
Langston Hughes
18
What is the term for a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract concept is given human qualities?
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A
Hyperbole
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B
Personification
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C
Irony
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D
Allusion
