This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why are words or phrases repeated in poems, stories, or movies? A) To annoy. B) To make less important. C) To emphasize or make stand out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize or make stand out. 2. In a line of poetry, an iambic pentameter is a beat consisting of a short syllable followed by a long syllable A) Diction. B) Caesura. C) Allusion. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter. 3. What century is metaphysical poetry from? A) 15th century. B) 16th century. C) 17 century. D) They are not joined by century, but by themes and style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17 century. 4. When a word or line is written more than once within the line or stanza A) Rhythm. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 5. Repeating the same vowel sound anywhere within words, not just at the beginning. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 6. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? A) To describe how she agreed with the discriminatory actions. B) To describe what segregation was like. C) To become known. D) To describe how she felt about her surroundings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To describe how she felt about her surroundings. 7. "I peeled my orange/That was so bright against/The gray of December." This line is a perfect example of A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Juxtaposition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 8. What does the O in TPCOASTT stand for? A) Overpopulation. B) Overature. C) Occasion. D) Organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organization. 9. What is the writing type:Poetry A) Paragraph form writing with no rhyming. B) Artistic writing with imagery, rhythm, stanzas, and sometimes rhyme. C) Play for theater, radio or television. D) A book or newspaper article. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artistic writing with imagery, rhythm, stanzas, and sometimes rhyme. 10. Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of SOUND? A) Quiet, ringing, barking. B) Salty, sweet, bitter. C) Moist, sharp, cold. D) Earthy, fruity, minty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quiet, ringing, barking. 11. What is the poem mainly about? A) It's about a lady still rising. B) It's about a lady who is falling. C) It's about a lady who is experiencing segregation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's about a lady who is experiencing segregation. 12. The example highlighted below is an example of?They bo y with the to y had so much jo y. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 13. Identify the rhyme scheme ..... Roses are redViolets are blueSugar is sweetSo are you A) ABCB. B) BABA. C) AAB. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABCB. 14. Of Homer's two epic poems, this is known as the war epic. A) Minstrel. B) The Odyssey. C) Homer. D) The Iliad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Iliad. 15. Who wouldn't feel exasperated about this poem? A) Caucasion. B) Americans. C) African Americans. D) White. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) African Americans. 16. Which of these poems is not written in first person narrative? A) Storm on the Island. B) The Prelude. C) London. D) The Charge of the Light Brigade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Charge of the Light Brigade. 17. How does the speaker in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" feel about his mistress? A) She's plain and not very pretty but he loves her anyway. B) She is as beautiful as any woman but doesn't stand up to romantic comparisons. C) She is extremely beautiful. D) She's ugly and he doesn't really like her appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is as beautiful as any woman but doesn't stand up to romantic comparisons. 18. Education in the UAE ..... and improved from the 1950s. A) Meant. B) Encouraged. C) Expanded. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expanded. 19. Why is this poem called "Introduction to Poetry" A) It's the name of the programme he started to encourage students to read poetry. B) It's a way to introduce students to all the poetry, he tells them how to analyse poems. C) It shows a new and fun way of how we look at poetry.He hoped he would change the way students look at poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It shows a new and fun way of how we look at poetry.He hoped he would change the way students look at poetry. 20. What is a single row of words in a poem called? A) Stanza. B) Row. C) Column. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 21. How does the nymph address the flaws she finds in the Shepherd's pleasant vision? A) The nymph simply says that she is not interested. B) The nymph suggest that they wait a little longer. C) The nymph simply points out the realities of life. D) The nymph sees no wrong in his request. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The nymph simply points out the realities of life. 22. What poem did Livius Andronicus first translate from Greek into Latin? A) The Iliad. B) The Aeneid. C) The Odyssey. D) Jason and the Argonauts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Odyssey. 23. The baby was like an octopus, pulling all the socks off the rack at the store.What is the meaning of the simile above? A) The baby lives in the sea. B) The baby had 8 legs. C) The baby was sleeping. D) The baby was pulling things off the rack so fast it seemed like it had many legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The baby was pulling things off the rack so fast it seemed like it had many legs. 24. Under exaggeration; using a negative statement to affirm a positive (ex:I'm sure that trigonometry quiz won't be a BIT hard.) A) Syntax. B) Hyperbole. C) Litote. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litote. 25. Who among the following did not live in a big tree? A) Rabbit. B) Cat. C) Mouse. D) Mongoose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rabbit. 26. Identify the literary device underlined in the following: "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio's." A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 27. Why would the speaker of "My Last Duchess" say he is not "skilled in speech" ? A) Because he lies a lot. B) To manipulate or confuse his companion. C) Because he is uneducated. D) To show that his wife is smarter than him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To manipulate or confuse his companion. 28. A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing. A) Antithesis. B) Argumentation. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 29. New ..... of writers have started writing other forms of literature such as short stories, novels and plays. A) Generations. B) Education. C) Seminars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generations. 30. The predominant feeling in a poem, or the prevailing attitude is known as: A) Meter. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 31. What war is the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' about? A) WW2. B) WW1. C) Cold War. D) Crimean War. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crimean War. 32. This is another name for the life lesson or moral of a poem. A) Theme. B) Rule. C) Idea. D) Consequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 33. A pause or break in poetry to create rhythm. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Caesura. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caesura. 34. "She moved ..... as she bore an angel's form" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 35. Read the poem below, which lines show rhyming?1 The ostrich is a silly bird, 2 with hardly any mind.3 He often runs so very fast, 4 He leaves himself behind A) Lines 1 and 2. B) Lines 1 and 3. C) Lines 2 and 4. D) Lines 2 and 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lines 2 and 4. 36. Your explanation is as clear as mud. Is an example of .. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 37. The Shakespearean sonnet is organized in ..... quatrains of alternating rhymes plus a group of two lines. A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 38. The difference between connotation and denotation is ..... A) Connotation is what a word implies, and denotation is the literal definition. B) Nothing, they're synonyms. C) Denotation is what a word implies, and connotation is the literal definition. D) Everything, they're antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation is what a word implies, and denotation is the literal definition. 39. An author's word choice A) Syntax. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 40. The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain. A) Consonance. B) Connotation. C) Assonance. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 41. What does the lamb symbolize in "The Lamb?" A) Death. B) Peace. C) Christ. D) Mystery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christ. 42. Children sometimes misjudge their parents. What does misjudge mean? A) Walk around with. B) Talk to. C) Misunderstand. D) Play with. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misunderstand. 43. The main subject that is being discussed in a poem, is: A) Descriptive. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 44. The last stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Orange. B) Blue. C) Green. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red. 45. How many parts does the unseen section have? A) 2. B) 1. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 46. What is this?"a tuna, the dark prince" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 47. Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words is ..... (Ex. We will win if we work hard.) A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 48. Which of these does the word "whilst" most likely mean? A) Whale. B) While. C) Where. D) When. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) While. 49. "The eerie silence was shattered by her scream." This is an example of ..... A) Rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Plot. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 50. How do you find clues about the meaning of the poem before you've even read them? A) Check the anthology question. B) Ask the person behind you in the exam hall. C) Read the poem. D) Look at both questions and the titles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Look at both questions and the titles. 51. The fifth stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Red. B) Orange. C) Yellow. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yellow. 52. When was Vergil born? A) 50 BCE. B) 44 BCE. C) 70 BCE. D) 30 CE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 70 BCE. 53. Poets often use ..... to represent ideas or qualities A) A sound. B) A speaker. C) Symbolism. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 54. "But still, like air, I'll rise, " this line is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 55. What is a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit? A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Linear equation. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 56. What is a thing that represents something else? A) Symptom. B) Symbol. C) Thesis. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 57. The use of a litst of items, objects, actions, etc. A) Catalog. B) Structure. C) Stanza. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catalog. 58. Define figure of speech A) Means something different from what it actually says. B) Means exactly what it looks like. C) Something that brings out the 5 senses. D) Something that means the exact opposite of what it says. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Means something different from what it actually says. 59. "Our life is like a thorny roseNot perfect, but always beautiful." A) Rhyme. B) Cacophony. C) Euphony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 60. He is credited as one of the first Metaphysical Poets A) John Donne. B) Charles I. C) Terry Bradshaw. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Donne. 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