Poetry Exam questions with complete
solutions
Tone - correct answer ✔✔The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially the
way this attitude is revealed through diction; how a piece of literature tries to get its message
across.
A. Tone
B. Style
C. Voice
D. Theme
Diction - correct answer ✔✔The specific words or kinds of words (e.g. formal vs. informal) that
an author chooses to use.
A. Diction
B. Style
C. Situation
D. Setting
Style - correct answer ✔✔A distinctive manner of expression; an author's linguistic fingerprint
A. Style
B. Tone
C. Diction
D. Theme
,Speaker - correct answer ✔✔The person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a
poem. This term may also be used to refer to anyone who speaks dialogue in any work of
fiction, including poetry.
A. Speaker
B. Narrator
C. Author
D. Poet
Lyric Poem - correct answer ✔✔Originally, a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a
lyre; now, any relatively short poem in which the author expresses his or her thoughts and
feelings in the first person, rather than recounting a narrative or portraying a dramatic situation.
A. Lyric Poem
B. Narrative Poem
C. Dramatic Poem
D. Aubade
Stanza - correct answer ✔✔A section of a poem designated by spacing
A. Stanza
B. Paragraph
C. Sonnet
D. Situation
Situation - correct answer ✔✔The basic circumstances depicted in a literary work, especially
when a story, play, or poem begins.
, A. Situation
B. Prologue
C. Stanza
D. Allusion
Allusion - correct answer ✔✔A brief, often implicit and indirect, reference within a literary text
to another literary text, or to a person, place, or thing outside the text.
A. Diction
B. Allusion
C. Aubade
D. Setting
Carpe diem - correct answer ✔✔Latin for "seize the day;" a common theme of literary works
that emphasize the brevity of life and the need to make the most of the present.
A. In medias res
B. Aubade
C. Carpe diem
D. Caveat emptor
Aubade - correct answer ✔✔A poem in which the coming of dawn is either celebrated or
denounced.
A. Lyric Poem
B. Allusion
solutions
Tone - correct answer ✔✔The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially the
way this attitude is revealed through diction; how a piece of literature tries to get its message
across.
A. Tone
B. Style
C. Voice
D. Theme
Diction - correct answer ✔✔The specific words or kinds of words (e.g. formal vs. informal) that
an author chooses to use.
A. Diction
B. Style
C. Situation
D. Setting
Style - correct answer ✔✔A distinctive manner of expression; an author's linguistic fingerprint
A. Style
B. Tone
C. Diction
D. Theme
,Speaker - correct answer ✔✔The person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a
poem. This term may also be used to refer to anyone who speaks dialogue in any work of
fiction, including poetry.
A. Speaker
B. Narrator
C. Author
D. Poet
Lyric Poem - correct answer ✔✔Originally, a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a
lyre; now, any relatively short poem in which the author expresses his or her thoughts and
feelings in the first person, rather than recounting a narrative or portraying a dramatic situation.
A. Lyric Poem
B. Narrative Poem
C. Dramatic Poem
D. Aubade
Stanza - correct answer ✔✔A section of a poem designated by spacing
A. Stanza
B. Paragraph
C. Sonnet
D. Situation
Situation - correct answer ✔✔The basic circumstances depicted in a literary work, especially
when a story, play, or poem begins.
, A. Situation
B. Prologue
C. Stanza
D. Allusion
Allusion - correct answer ✔✔A brief, often implicit and indirect, reference within a literary text
to another literary text, or to a person, place, or thing outside the text.
A. Diction
B. Allusion
C. Aubade
D. Setting
Carpe diem - correct answer ✔✔Latin for "seize the day;" a common theme of literary works
that emphasize the brevity of life and the need to make the most of the present.
A. In medias res
B. Aubade
C. Carpe diem
D. Caveat emptor
Aubade - correct answer ✔✔A poem in which the coming of dawn is either celebrated or
denounced.
A. Lyric Poem
B. Allusion
