ENGLISH POETRY (TEST) WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS -6

ENGLISH POETRY (TEST) WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS #6

Metonymy - correct answer Use of one word in place of another word associated with it

Alliteration - correct answer Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Onomatopoeia - correct answer A word imitating a sound

Simile - correct answer One thing is like another

Metaphor - correct answer One thing is another

Hyperbole - correct answer Exaggeration

Paradox - correct answer Apparent contradiction

Imagery - correct answer Mental pictures created through descriptions which help the
senses

Symbol - correct answer A thing that represents itself and something else

False - correct answer The chief difference between poetry and prose is thy poetry is
rhymed

False - correct answer A poem should have the same meaning for all readers

True - correct answer Some symbols may be interpreted in more than one way

False - correct answer Synecdoche is a type of irony

True - correct answer A metaphor depends upon the connotations of words
representing the things being compared

Sonnet - correct answer 14 line poem

Pentameter - correct answer a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet

Trochee - correct answer A foot consisting of an accented and unaccented syllable, as
in the word happy.

Quatrain - correct answer A four line stanza

Assonance - correct answer Repetition of vowel sounds

Iamb - correct answer Most common metrical 'foot' in English - consists of 2 syllables,
one short one long