This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 13 (50 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, QUESTION:What tone do these lines in the poem convey? A) Agitated. B) Loving. C) Optimistic. D) Cynical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Optimistic. 2. What did the caged bird symbolize in either of the 'Caged Bird' poems we read? A) Actual birds being held captive. B) J Cole's pain. C) People trapped by a system. D) The people who hold others down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People trapped by a system. 3. Creates a surprise ending that defies the audience's exception. (We expect one thing, but we get another). A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Ironing board. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 4. What is a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author? A) Couplet. B) Meter. C) Lyric. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 5. The general council came together with Running Deer. What does council mean? A) Sitting down. B) A meeting. C) Leaving out. D) Joining. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A meeting. 6. Little Ant loved to read.Little Ant was often teased. "Ants don't read. Ants must feed.Ants collect the food they need." Little Ant would read all day, he'd read and read the day away.The other ants took what they foundto store for winter underground.Which words do not rhyme in the poem? A) Found-underground. B) Read-feed. C) Away-found. D) Feed-need. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Away-found. 7. Sometimes figurative language is found in poetry. What is the figurative language that is an extreme exaggeration? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 8. How does the final couplet in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" add to the message of the sonnet? A) It shows that he means what he says earlier in the poem. B) It explains why he described his mistress so unfavorably. C) It shows that he doesn't really think poorly of his mistress. D) It continues to describe his mistress's appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It shows that he doesn't really think poorly of his mistress. 9. The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 10. A two line stanza is a A) Couplet. B) Terter. C) Tercet. D) Coupler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 11. 'From Jamaica she travel far' A) Storm on the Island. B) Ozymandias. C) Checking Out Me History. D) The Emigree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Checking Out Me History. 12. Which of the following is NOT criteria for a sonnet? A) 14 lines. B) Specific rhythm. C) Specific sound devices. D) Specific rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Specific sound devices. 13. The moon asked the stars to dance. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. The words, sentences, or text that precedes or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage is called ..... A) Context clues. B) Passage. C) Summarize. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Context clues. 15. Which of the following best fits the definition for an ode? A) A silly poem written to make people laugh. B) A poem written like a song to honor someone or something. C) A sad poem to honor someone who is dead or something that is lost. D) An ancient form of poetry not commonly seen today. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A poem written like a song to honor someone or something. 16. PREMEASURED patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables: A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 17. Who was afraid of the cat? A) Mouse. B) Owl. C) Mongoose. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. An expression or group of words that can be confusing because they say one thing but mean another A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 19. The following words can be used to describe the soldiers except A) Loyal. B) Patriotic. C) Brave. D) Truthful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Truthful. 20. 'The white streets of that city, the graceful slopesglow even clearer as time rolls its tanks' A) Tissue. B) The Emigree. C) Extract from, The Prelude. D) Ozymandias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Emigree. 21. UAE has invited authors and university ..... to literary gatherings and book festivals. A) Merchants. B) Cultures. C) Professors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Professors. 22. Who inspired British romantic writers because of their ideals of liberty and freedom? A) Russia and the Ukraine. B) America and France. C) Germany and Austria. D) China and Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) America and France. 23. Finish the quote:"At last I knew Porphyria ..... me" A) Despised. B) Hated. C) Worshipped. D) Loved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worshipped. 24. At the time the incident take place, the speaker's attitude toward the girl is- A) Passionate and a bit jealous. B) Romantic and eager to please. C) Shy and frightened. D) Affectionate, but superior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic and eager to please. 25. Romantics thought the beauty of nature was a path to: A) Picnic areas. B) New places. C) Sophistication. D) Spiritual enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiritual enlightenment. 26. What is a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry? A) Haiku. B) End rhyme. C) Caesura. D) Canto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caesura. 27. A pattern of letters given to rhyming words at the end of each line within a poem. A) Line. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 28. A poem that celebrates a subject and is a tribute to an object, a person, or an event. A) Ode. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 29. Which statement summarizes the poem? A) The author observes how a bird behaves in nature. B) A bird on a walk. C) The author loves her pet bird. D) A bird eats an angleworm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author observes how a bird behaves in nature. 30. A/An ..... is someone who is involved in trade. A) Trade. B) Merchant. C) Author. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merchant. 31. A simile or a metaphor could also be called what in literature? Remember it is comparing two things. A) Symbolism. B) Analogy. C) Shifts. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 32. The return of a word, phrase, or stanza for effect A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Mood. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 33. Which literary term means the feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage? A) Tone. B) Foreshadowing. C) Mood. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 34. Sonnets often portrayed women A) As gold-diggers. B) As harlots. C) As simple. D) As a perfect being. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As a perfect being. 35. What does the narrator compare her eyes to? A) Sunlight. B) Jelly. C) Marbles. D) Closed flower buds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Closed flower buds. 36. Which point of view uses pronouns like "I" , "we" , "my" ? A) First Person. B) Third Person Limited. C) Third Person Omniscient. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person. 37. Which of these is the biggest difference between poetry and 'regular' writing? A) Regular writing is boring. B) Poetry focuses on emotion and feelings. C) Only certain people can write poetry. D) All poems have to rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry focuses on emotion and feelings. 38. Stop singing said Sally A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Parody. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 39. Home:a safe, private, warm place A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Parody. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 40. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?The one who brought me down to earth, and held me every day.the one who gracefully gave me birth, and said "i love you" in every way.the one who taught me everything, like how to crawl and walk.the one who taught me how to singafter learning how to talk. A) AAAA, AAAA. B) ABAB, CDCD. C) DDDD, AAAA. D) AABB, AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB, CDCD. 41. My love for you is a rose is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 42. Which piece of evidence below supports this character trait inference? In the story, "Flowers" by Alice Walker, Myop is curious about nature. A) "By twelve o'clock . . . she was a mile or more from home". B) "She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns, an armful of strange blue flowers . . .". C) "All his clothes had rotted away except some threads of blue denim . . .". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns, an armful of strange blue flowers . . .". 43. What does the narrator seem to be afraid to look at after he kills Porphyria? A) Her eyes. B) God. C) Her parents. D) Her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her eyes. 44. Repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 45. What character trait is revealed here?After glancing around to make sure she wasn't being watched, Marissa slide the candy bar into her pocket. She walked out of store casually, not stopping to pay. A) Selfish. B) Sneaky. C) Thrifty. D) Rude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sneaky. 46. The narrator in a poem or the person telling you the poem is called what in poetry? A) Playwright. B) Speaker. C) Narrator. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 47. What is sensory language? A) A stanza consisting of 4 lines. B) How the reader feels. C) Use of five senses to create imagery. D) When two words end with the same sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of five senses to create imagery. 48. Who freed the cat from the trap? A) Mongoose. B) Owl. C) Mouse. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mouse. 49. "The b razen b oy laughed defiantly at the c orpse in the c asket." A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 50. What is the Poet is implying when she says "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise." A) She is saying that you can talk about her, but words won't kill her. B) She is saying that even though she's facing discrimination she will still overcome it. C) I don't know. D) She won't rise because of discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is saying that even though she's facing discrimination she will still overcome it. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 5Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books