STRAYER UNIVERSITY ENG 090 QUIZ
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ Apostrophe. Answer: Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent
person, to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.
◉ Approximate Rhyme. Answer: Words that sound similar but do
not rhyme exactly.
◉ Assonance. Answer: Correspondence or resemblance of repeated
vowel sounds
◉ Ballad. Answer: A song or song-like poem that tells a story
◉ Blank Verse. Answer: Verse of unrhymed lines
◉ Connotation. Answer: A secondary meaning suggested by a word
in addition to its literal meaning
◉ Couplet. Answer: Two successive lines of verse usually rhyming
and the same number
, ◉ Denotation. Answer: To refer to specifically
◉ End rhyme. Answer: Occurs at the ends of lines
◉ Enjambment. Answer: The continuation of the same and
grammatical structure from one line of poetry to the next
◉ End stopped. Answer: A line with a pause at the end. The line of
poetry ends with some type of puntuation.
◉ Epic. Answer: A long narrative poem that is written in heightened
language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who
embodies the values of a society
◉ Euphony. Answer: Pleasing or agreeable sounds
◉ Form. Answer: The structure and organization of a poem
◉ Free Verse. Answer: Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme
scheme. These poems may use internal rhyme, repetition,
alliteration, onomatopoeia
◉ Imagery. Answer: Words that appeal to the senses and create
mental images
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ Apostrophe. Answer: Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent
person, to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.
◉ Approximate Rhyme. Answer: Words that sound similar but do
not rhyme exactly.
◉ Assonance. Answer: Correspondence or resemblance of repeated
vowel sounds
◉ Ballad. Answer: A song or song-like poem that tells a story
◉ Blank Verse. Answer: Verse of unrhymed lines
◉ Connotation. Answer: A secondary meaning suggested by a word
in addition to its literal meaning
◉ Couplet. Answer: Two successive lines of verse usually rhyming
and the same number
, ◉ Denotation. Answer: To refer to specifically
◉ End rhyme. Answer: Occurs at the ends of lines
◉ Enjambment. Answer: The continuation of the same and
grammatical structure from one line of poetry to the next
◉ End stopped. Answer: A line with a pause at the end. The line of
poetry ends with some type of puntuation.
◉ Epic. Answer: A long narrative poem that is written in heightened
language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who
embodies the values of a society
◉ Euphony. Answer: Pleasing or agreeable sounds
◉ Form. Answer: The structure and organization of a poem
◉ Free Verse. Answer: Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme
scheme. These poems may use internal rhyme, repetition,
alliteration, onomatopoeia
◉ Imagery. Answer: Words that appeal to the senses and create
mental images
