This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You mark rhyme scheme using ..... A) Symbols. B) Numbers. C) What? You can't do that!. D) Letters of the alphabet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Letters of the alphabet. 2. This is a form of writing that uses not only words, but also form, patterns of sound, imagery, and figurative language to convey a message. A) Prose. B) Essay. C) Poetry. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 3. How long does the narrator sit with Porphyria's dead body? A) An hour. B) Until he falls asleep. C) All night. D) A day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All night. 4. The feeling the READER experiences when reading a poem A) Meter. B) Mood. C) Form. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 5. What is the answer to the question posed in "The Lamb?" A) Mutton is delicious. B) God is a mystery. C) The Tiger is evil. D) God created the lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God created the lamb. 6. Which vehicle takes people to offices and shops? A) Autorickshaw. B) Motorcycle. C) Bus. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autorickshaw. 7. Who is the narrator, or speaker, of "My Last Duchess" ? A) The poet. B) Robert Browning. C) A Duke. D) The Duchess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Duke. 8. A person, thing, or animal who plays a part in a story. A) Flat. B) Character. C) Protagonist. D) Main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character. 9. What is the comparison of two unlike things using "like" "as" or "than" A) Metaphor. B) Theme. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. "I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide/ welling and swelling, I bear in the tide." A) Metaphor. B) Pun. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. Is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. Which of the following is a subgenre of British poetry? A) Free verse. B) SLAM. C) Pastoral. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pastoral. 13. Which literary term means the attitude, or feeling, that the author has about the subject? A) Tone. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. Restating something in your own words A) Repetition. B) Paraphrasing. C) Writing. D) Quotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paraphrasing. 15. What is ONE thing the poet says we should NOT do with a poem? A) Ski across its surface. B) Look at it in the light. C) Walk inside its room. D) Beat a confession out of it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beat a confession out of it. 16. Read these lines from the beginning of the poem. A Bird came down the walk-He did not know I saw; He big an angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw Which lines end with words that rhyme? A) Lines 3 and 4 rhyme. B) All four lines rhyme. C) Lines 1 and 3 rhyme. D) Lines 2 and 4 rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines 2 and 4 rhyme. 17. 'There hung a darkness, call it solitude' A) Exposure. B) London. C) Remains. D) Extract from, The Prelude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extract from, The Prelude. 18. A reference to something famous or well-known is called a/an A) Allusion. B) Epic simile. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 19. A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. A) Enjambment. B) End-stopped line. C) Punctuated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-stopped line. 20. Shakespeare wrote ..... sonnets. A) Petrarchan. B) Italian. C) Spenserian. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English. 21. Making a comparison between two unlike things using "like, " "as, " or "than." A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 22. Words that rhyme inside the line. EX:I'm a CAT who wears a HAT. A) Rhyme scheme. B) End rhyme. C) Partial rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 23. ..... means special importance given to something. A) Emphasis. B) Novels. C) Reasons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasis. 24. The sections in poems are called A) Stanzas. B) Parts. C) Pieces of the poem. D) Sections. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 25. Everett held his father's hand as he crossed the busy parking lot. They walked into a grocery store. Everett's dad lifted him into the seat of the shopping cart. "Here, "said dad, "You can hold my shopping list." You can infer that A) Everett's dad does not shop often. B) Everett's dad needs help with shopping. C) Everett is very young. D) Everett had never been to a grocery store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Everett is very young. 26. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. Is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 27. "You may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesYou may kill me with your hatefulness" A) Imagery. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 28. The imagery of the orange "making a fire in my hands" (final line) is A) Sarcastic, because the boy really wanted chocolate, and not an orange. B) Ironic, because the readers would not expect a twelve year old boy to enjoy eating fruit. C) Strange, because he still has the orange after he gave it to the saleslady. D) Symbolic, because it represents the brightness of the boy's mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolic, because it represents the brightness of the boy's mood. 29. Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a character's personality to the reader. A) Personalization. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization. 30. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called a A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 31. Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose? A) Couplet. B) Speaker. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 32. A word that sounds like the noise it describes A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 33. Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so" A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 34. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem, written as letters.EX:ABAB CDCD A) Rhyme scheme. B) Partial rhyme. C) Narrative. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 35. Describes something non-human with human qualities A) Internal Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 36. What is it called when an object, animal or inanimate object is portrayed as having human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes? A) Simile. B) Humanization. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 37. In THE INCHCAPE ROCK, What makes Ralph the Rover regrets his action of stealing the bell? A) All of his belongings were robbed by the Abbot. B) His boatmen left him alone in the ship. C) His ship sank because of the absence of the bell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His ship sank because of the absence of the bell. 38. What did a Roman patrician consider his best pursuit? A) Trade. B) Agriculture. C) Government. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agriculture. 39. Who wrote 'Exposure'? A) Simon Armitage. B) Wilfred Owen. C) Carol Ann Duffy. D) Beatrice Garland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wilfred Owen. 40. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definition. A) Connotation. B) Meter. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 41. What do we call t he main message an author hopes to convey? A) Focus. B) Topic. C) Thesis. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 42. To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics? A) Cats. B) Birds. C) Fish. D) Bees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bees. 43. A group of words whose meaning is different from the actual (ordinary) meaning of the word is an ..... (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs." A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 44. Read the stanza from the poem.'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI rise I rise. "Why does she repeat "I rise?" A) To understate. B) To depreciate. C) To forget. D) To emphasize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To emphasize. 45. The example highlighted below is an example of?The black birddog boldly began to bark. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 46. The second stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Indigo. B) Orange. C) Violet. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indigo. 47. 'The lone and level sands stretch far away' A) Ozymandias. B) London. C) Extract from, The Prelude. D) Exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ozymandias. 48. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass;" A) Rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 49. What does the P in TPFASTT stand for? A) Paraphrase. B) Prominent. C) Paragraph. D) Petty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paraphrase. 50. Which writer said, "The free bird thinks of another breeze." A) Maya Angelou. B) Shakespeare. C) J Cole. D) Mr. Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maya Angelou. 51. 'To get out of that blue crackling airHis terror's touchy dynamite.' A) Bayonet Charge. B) Remains. C) Charge of the Light Brigade. D) Exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bayonet Charge. 52. Which of these is NOT figurative language? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 53. The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Comparison and contrast. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 54. Which type of poetry glorifies a person, place, thing, or idea? A) Lyric. B) Sonnet. C) Epic. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 55. Rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry. A) Rhymed verse. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 56. Why did King Henry VIII separate from the Catholic Church? A) Tensions were running high between England and the Pope. B) The Pope would not divorce him from his current wife. C) He didn't agree with their religious beliefs anymore. D) He wanted to create his own religious doctrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pope would not divorce him from his current wife. 57. Author's purpose means ..... A) The reason the author chose this title. B) The reason the author is alive. C) The reason the author wrote this piece. D) The reason the author loves to write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The reason the author wrote this piece. 58. During the Renaissance, what types of literature were people rediscovering an interest in? A) Greek and Roman stories. B) Biblical tales and Greek tragedies. C) Romance and epic poems. D) Biblical stories and fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek and Roman stories. 59. The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 60. Compares two different things saying the one is the other ..... does not use like or as to compare A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. 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