Poetry Quiz
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The poet appeals the readers to keep quiet for
A. 20 seconds
B. 1 hour
C. 30 seconds
D. 1 second
The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or verse.
A. meter
B. rhyme scheme
C. alliteration
Poem designed to take a particular shape or form on the page.
A. concrete
B. couplet
C. limerick
What according to the poet would interrupt the sadness of man’s life?
A. Great laughter
B. Huge silence
C. Arguments
D. Fights
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
A. end rhyme
B. meter
C. metaphor
The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is
A. P.B Shelley
B. Vikram Seth
C. Pablo Neruda
D. Kamala Das
What does man threaten himself with?
A. Death
B. Birth
C. Robbery
D. Suicide
Silly poem that has rhyme and beat.
A. free verse
B. haiku
C. nonsense
The types of wars the poet talks about are
A. Green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
B. Verbal wars
C. Technological warfare
D. Nuclear wars
The poet wants the entire humanity to
A. Keep talking
B. Keep running
C. Keep laughing
D. Keep still
A comparison of two unlike things NOT using the words “like” or “as”.
A. simile
B. alliteration
C. metaphor
Pairing the last word in one line with the last word on the next line.
A. end rhyme
B. meter
C. couplet
Cold sea is which poetic device?
A. Personification
B. Transferred epithet
C. Metaphor
D. Alliteration
The last word in a line will be echoed by a word placed in the beginning or in the middle of the following line.
A. internal rhyme
B. end rhyme
C. quatrain
The repetition of the beginning sound.
A. alliteration
B. onomatopoeia
C. simile
Funny, sometimes rude, poems set in AABBA rhyme scheme.
A. concrete
B. limerick
C. ode
Poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third.
A. haiku
B. free verse
C. couplet
Poem typically written to praise a person, event, or thing.
A. ode
B. haiku
C. acrostic
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent?
A. Terrible
B. Painful
C. Exotic
D. Unforgettable
Can or cannot rhyme, it can have as many lines or stanzas as you want.
A. limerick
B. free verse
C. nonsense
Spells out a name, word, phrase, or message with the first letter of each line of the poem.
A. sonnet
B. acrostic
C. limerick
Rhymed group of four lines in a poem.
A. limerick
B. quatrain
C. acrostic
The comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.
A. simile
B. onomatopoeia
C. metaphor
Sudden strangeness is one of the following poetic devices
A. Simile
B. Personification
C. Alliteration
D. Repetition
The men in the clean clothes would be walking with their
A. Nephews
B. Enemies
C. Colleagues
D. Brothers
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