Multiple Choice Questions (Poetry, Part 2)

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Facts about the test: The AP English Lit exam has 55 multiple choice questions and you will be given 1 hour to complete the section. That means it should take you around 10 minutes to complete 9 questions.

(A) A line of poetry with a single word

(B) A single sentence in poetry spilling onto more than one line

(C) An abrupt stop at the end of a line

(D) One line of poetry much longer than the rest

(A) A poem where each line rhymes

(B) A sixteen line poem broken into four quatrains

(C) All poems made up of tercets

(D) Any fourteen-line poem

(A) A poem's rhyme scheme

(B) The basic rhythm structure in a poem

(C) The total lines covered by a poem

(D) When the last two lines rhyme

(A) A line of iambic pentameter with one extra syllable

(B) A poem with no defined rhyme structure

(C) Any rhyming poem

(D) The total count of all syllables in a poem

(A) A period in the middle of a line of poetry

(B) An end-stop

(C) Starting each line with the same letter or sound

(D) The space where one line ends and another begins

(A) A stanza starting with only consonants

(B) The difference in one from the first line compared to the last line

(C) The repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry

(D) Two slightly different lines

(A) All hard sounds in a poem

(B) All soft sounds in a poem

(C) The general mood of a poem

(D) The same vowel sound repeated over a line of poetry

(A) A dash in a line

(B) Any two lines of poetry with end rhyme

(C) Repeating the same word at the start of a line

(D) Using multiple double-letter words like "pool" or "been"

(A) Any couplet that is also iambic pentameter

(B) Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers

(C) Two lines that do not rhyme

(D) Words that just nearly rhyme

(A) A single word to end a poem

(B) A speaker consumed by the subject

(C) An extended metaphor

(D) When two rhyming lines surround an un-rhymed line

(A) A one stanza poem

(B) A pause within a line of poetry

(C) No more than three words on a line

(D) No punctuation in a poem

(A) A celebratory poem amplifying a specific subject

(B) A poem about death

(C) A poem about songs

(D) A poem about the senses

(A) A larger way to think about overarching themes in a poem

(B) The central motif of a poem

(C) The way a poem keeps pace

(D) Using a part to reference a whole

(A) A poem focused on lessons through animals

(B) A poem inspired by an earlier work

(C) A poem meant to be sung; musical

(D) A poem with a false counter-narrative

(A) A meter indicating Victorian poetry

(B) One unstressed and one stressed syllable

(C) Ten syllables in a line

(D) Two unstressed syllables