Naming of Parts Quizzes

Naming of Parts Quiz

1 Which device is most prominent in this poem?
Synecdoche

Rhyme

Apostrophe

Hyperbole
2 Fill in the blank: "The _____ Are fragile and motionless"
trees

children

soldiers

blossoms
3 How many stanzas are in the poem?
2

5

4

7
4 Who is the poem's speaker?
A university student

A prison inmate

A doctor

An army officer
5 What is the poem's meter throughout?
There is no consistent meter

Dactylic monometer

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic dimeter
6 Fill in the blank: "it is perfectly easy / If you have any strength in your _____"
mind

arm

thumb

back
7 Which of these lines includes simile?
"Japonica / Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens."

"You can do it quite easy / If you have any strength in your thumb."

"And this / Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see"

"This is the safety-catch, which is always released"
8 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And please do not let me / See anyone using his finger."

"And this Is the upper sling swivel, / whose use you will see"

"we call this / Easing the spring."

"For today we have the naming of the parts"
9 Which of the following does the poem juxtapose?
Safety and adventure

War and nature

Industry and agriculture

City life and the rustic
10 Fill in the blank: "And please do not let me / See anyone using his _____."
rifle

brain

finger

phone
11 Who is the speaker's implicitly evoked audience?
A classroom of children

A family of orphans

A couple on their wedding day

A group of soldiers
12 Which device appears in the sentence "The blossoms / Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see / Any of them using their finger."
Understatement

Anaphora

Personification

Simile
13 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia in the poem?
Glistens

Flick

Bolt

Thumb
14 Which of the following is NOT one of this poem's themes?
Childhood

Nature

Sexuality

War
15 Which of the following objects is personified in this poem?
Guns

Japonica

Fingers

Branches
16 What kind of stanzas does this poem have?
Quatrains

Sextets

Couplets

Octets
17 This can best be described as which of the following?
A nationalistic poem

An acrostic

An anti-war poem

An elegy
18 Which of the following is a symbol in this poem?
The gun

The lower swing swivel

The stars

The officer
19 What object does the poem center around?
A fur coat

A gun

A car

A hair dryer
20 Fill in the blank: "They call it easing the _____."
passage

day

Spring

pain
21 Which historical event does this poem allude to?
The Falklands War

World War II

The Vietnam War

World War I
22 Fill in the blank: "Today we have _____ / Yesterday, We had daily cleaning."
naming of parts

review of the weapon

what to do after firing

an important task
23 Where does this poem most likely take place?
Algeria

Japan

Germany

France
24 Which word is most clearly used in this poem to create a pun?
Parts

Bees

Breech

Spring
25 Fill in the blank: "And this / Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see, / When you are given your _____"
tools

slings

guns

jobs

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