This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What sort of quotes should you choose for the L in MILSTYP part of your essay? A) Only poetic devices. B) Any effective quotes that relate to the question and you can zoom in on key words. C) Only similes. D) Only verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any effective quotes that relate to the question and you can zoom in on key words. 2. What do you call a six-line stanza? A) Spenserian. B) Sestet. C) Sixtet. D) Septet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 3. A member of a wealthy family in the ancient Roman Republic was known as a ..... A) Plebeian. B) Patrician. C) Polytheism. D) Province. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patrician. 4. The mariner shoots the albatross with A) A musket. B) A crossbow. C) A bow. D) A cannon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A crossbow. 5. A sentence or single phrase in a poem A) Couplet. B) Line. C) Haiku. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 6. Repeating the same sound in a group of 2 or more words A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 7. Identify the literary device underlined in the following: "You're barking up the wrong tree!" A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. Which author compares his love to summer and the sun? A) Sir Walter Raleigh. B) William Shakespeare. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Francesco Petrarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 9. The example highlighted below is an example of?The wind whipped the branches all around, As the rain fell silently to the ground . A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme (end rhyme). D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme (end rhyme). 10. Which of these is the best definition of writer's message? A) How the writer tells us what they want us to know. B) What the writer wants us to walk away with. C) How the writer feels about the topic. D) The way we feel as we read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What the writer wants us to walk away with. 11. This is the basic unit of measurement of a meter in poetry. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Foot. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 12. Which of the following is NOT something the Duchess did wrong, according to the Duke? A) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf. B) She loved the sunset as much as she loved her husband. C) She would not listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behavior. D) She was equally grateful and smiled at all acts of kindness, not just her husband's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She loved the sunset as much as she loved her husband. 13. A free verse poem ..... A) Has an A-B-A-B, C-D-C-D, E-F-E-F, G-G rhyme scheme. B) Has a certain number of syllables per line. C) Has a certain rhyme and meter. D) Has no set rhyme, meter, or form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has no set rhyme, meter, or form. 14. All of the following are considered part of a poem's structure except for A) Significant Punctuation. B) Word Positioning. C) Figurative Language. D) Line Length. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 15. A Shakespearean sonnet follws the rhyme scheme of A) Abab/cdcd/efef/gg. B) Syllabic in pattern. C) 14 lines. D) Abba/abba/cde/cde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abab/cdcd/efef/gg. 16. "In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops." A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. The measured, patterned arrangement of syllables according to stress and length in a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Syllable. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 18. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of each line is called ..... A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Regular beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 19. What type of poem is japanese and usually about nature? It has three lines with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. A) Haiku. B) Diamante. C) Free verse. D) Cinquian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 20. In "The Wasteland" T.S. Eliot refers to the bible, as well as other texts. These are examples of: A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Enjambment. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 21. The example highlighted below is an example of?The engine purred like a contented cat. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 22. In this line of the poem, "Far Away, buzzers buzz and school bells ring, " what element are the words buzz and ring? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 23. What war did Alfred Lord Tennyson fight in? A) WW2. B) He didn't fight in a war. C) WW1. D) Crimean War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He didn't fight in a war. 24. 'Of mine for dowry will be disallowed' A) London. B) My Last Duchess. C) Bayonet Charge. D) Tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My Last Duchess. 25. Make this a simile. She swims like a ..... A) Fish. B) Bird. C) Lizard. D) Cheetah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fish. 26. What is it called when rhyming words occur within a line of poetry? A) Line rhyme. B) Within rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 27. The rain danced on the roof is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 28. What do you call the measurement of poetry based on the structural rhythm of a verse? A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Iamb. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 29. Which literary term means the perspective from which the story is told? A) Climax. B) Point of View. C) Plot. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of View. 30. The Odyssey by Homer is an example of which form of poetry? A) Ode. B) Lyric. C) Sonnet. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 31. This is when an author tells what the senses hear, see, smell, taste, or touch to create a vivid scene or picture for the reader. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 32. Read the sentence from the selection, "Without warning, huge cold drops fell on the marching ants."This sentence best appeals to the reader's sense of ..... A) Smell. B) Hearing. C) Sight. D) Touch/Feel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Touch/Feel. 33. What is the use of words that imitate sounds? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 34. Comparison between two subjects that uses LIKE or AS A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 35. By the end of the poem, we know the Duke is planning a ..... A) Party. B) Marriage. C) Hunting trip. D) Vacation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marriage. 36. Two lines of a verse that rhyme are known as ..... A) Couplet. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 37. A poem with 14 lines, each has 10 syllables Rhyme Scheme:ABAB CDCD EFEF GG A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Elegy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 38. What is the tone of "The Tyger?" A) Questioning. B) Playful. C) Destructive. D) Gentle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Questioning. 39. The Poem "Sympathy" is similar in theme to which other poem? A) "Annabel Lee". B) "Phenomenal Woman". C) "El Dorado". D) "I, too, sing America". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "I, too, sing America". 40. What did the boys build in the poem 'A Good Play'? A) Ship. B) Car. C) Boat. D) Bus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ship. 41. What is understated exaggeration for affect? A) Litmus. B) Litotes. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 42. Descriptive language that appeals to the reader's five senses and helps create mental images A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbole. D) Litote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 43. What war did Ted Hughes fight in? A) Cold War. B) He didn't fight in a war. C) WW2. D) WW1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He didn't fight in a war. 44. In THE QUARREL, What is the main theme of the poem? A) Blood is thicker than water. B) Love and hate. C) Conflict in relationships. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood is thicker than water. 45. Who does the narrator say has not commented on the murder? A) Porphyria's mum. B) God. C) Porphyria. D) Himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God. 46. What is a "dream deferred" ? A) A dream that can only happen with support from family. B) A dream that doesn't come true. C) A dream that one has to pursue on their own. D) A dream that is delayed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A dream that is delayed. 47. A group of lines forming a single unit in a poem (like a poetry paragraph) A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Sonnet. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 48. What is a text feature of poetry? A) List of characters. B) Lines and Stanzas. C) Story. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines and Stanzas. 49. NarratorTiana-a 10 year old girlUncle Eric-Tiana's uncleCoach SingletonAre examples of? A) Stage Direction. B) Cast of Characters. C) Dialogue. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cast of Characters. 50. 'Sneer of cold command' A) My Last Duchess. B) The Prelude. C) Ozymandias. D) Checkin' Out Me History. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozymandias. 51. What is this?"rock and roof" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 52. Which set of words do not rhyme? A) Hate-hat. B) Boy-toy. C) Fate-mate. D) Hat-cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hate-hat. 53. The cupcake was a cavity waiting to invade my teeth. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 54. Roses are red, Violets are blue .I wish you could seeHow much I love you !What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Blank verse. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 55. The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art or literature is known as ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Dissonance. D) Pathetic Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathetic Fallacy. 56. Who was not an author during the Romantic era? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) William Wordsworth. C) Percy Shelley. D) JK Rowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) JK Rowling. 57. Home:where one resides or lives A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Rhetoric. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 58. A poem that tells a story complete with characters and a plot. A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 59. 'We watch them wandering up and down the wind'snonchalance, But nothing happens.' A) The Emigree. B) Charge of the Light Brigade. C) Exposure. D) Tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposure. 60. Which vehicle will you use to go out of the town? A) Bicycle. B) Tricycle. C) Car. D) None. 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