This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of the following images is an example of a simile? A) Light/ like a green latticework of branches. B) Light/ has dropped from the top of the sky. C) Its sawing song. D) The world is / a glass overflowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light/ like a green latticework of branches. 2. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog's bath. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. How does Spenser's "Sonnet 30" use paradox? A) By saying his poem will make his love live forever. B) By saying that he is fire and his love is ice. C) By saying that God chooses who dies, so it's meant to be. D) By saying that love makes the mind gentle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By saying that he is fire and his love is ice. 4. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?She wouldn't get her head out of the clouds A) She was very tall. B) She was loud. C) She was daydreaming. D) She had a headache. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was daydreaming. 5. Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.What comparison does Frost make to fire? A) Is it like death, because it ends everything. B) It is like hate, because it is raging and destructive. C) It is like the world, because it is everywhere. D) It is like desire, because it's a consuming element. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is like desire, because it's a consuming element. 6. Who is Fra Pandolf? A) The Duke. B) The messenger. C) The painter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The painter. 7. Which of the following is TYPICALLY present in gothic literature? A) Elements of the supernatural. B) Characters who are apathetic or don't care about much. C) Wild animals and nature. D) Big, fancy mansions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elements of the supernatural. 8. A humorously exaggerated imitation A) Analogy. B) Satire. C) Parody. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parody. 9. The speakers in both "Introduction to Poetry" and "Simile:Willow and the Ginkgo" discuss something they A) Lose. B) Love. C) Create. D) Misunderstand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love. 10. Harsh, discordant, or unpleasant sound choice and arrangement A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. C) Symphony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. 11. Which describes the purpose of a drama? A) To inform. B) To persuade. C) To entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To entertain. 12. Which of these poems is a sonnet? A) Ozymandias. B) Storm on the Island. C) Exposure. D) The Prelude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ozymandias. 13. How did the British government try to control the literature that was available to readers? A) Censorship. B) Taxation. C) Burning Books. D) Mandatory rewrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxation. 14. The smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. A) Consonance. B) Ballad. C) Enjambment. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foot. 15. Which is NOT part of a poem's structure? A) Line breaks and Length. B) Word Positioning. C) Significant Punctuation. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 16. What is an example of hyperbole in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?" A) "We will sit upon the rocks by shallow rivers". B) "A gown of finest wool from our pretty lambs we pull". C) "Come live with me and be my love". D) "We will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves or steepy mountain yields.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "We will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves or steepy mountain yields.". 17. The movement known as "humanism" asked questions such as A) "What is a human being?". B) "What is a good life?". C) "How do I live a good life?". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Chapters are frequently found in A) Prose. B) Plays. C) Poems. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 19. Rennaissance is a(n) ..... word that means ..... A) French, "rebirth". B) Italian, "rebirth". C) French, "reimagine". D) Old English, "recreate". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French, "rebirth". 20. It is obvious that the Duke has a love for ..... A) Objects over people. B) His late wife, the Duchess. C) All women. D) Everyone in his kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objects over people. 21. Which word rhymes with all three?butterflyshymultiply A) Eye. B) Ugly. C) Bite. D) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye. 22. Romantics showed more ..... than the previous eras. A) Loyalty. B) Spirituality. C) Emotion. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotion. 23. In the previous question, to what was hope being compared? A) A bird. B) A dream. C) Souls. D) Feathers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bird. 24. What is the the writer's choice of words that reveals the writer's attitude toward the subject? A) Stylus. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 25. The example highlighted below is an example of?The moon never beams without bringing me dreams (one line) A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Internal rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 26. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Antithesis. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 27. One night, the mouse was going to the ..... field. A) Corn. B) Wheat. C) Rice. D) Cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rice. 28. What type of figurative languageis extreme exaggeration? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 29. What character trait is revealed?After pulling an all-nighter studying, Sarah moved through the dance routine sluggishly. She was off beat and missed several moves. A) Passionate. B) Tired. C) Nervous. D) Bored. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tired. 30. Which of the following is NOT something you do when analyzing a poem? A) Answer questions about the poem. B) Try to figure out what the poet is saying. C) Just read the poem. D) Label the rhyme scheme (ABAB). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Just read the poem. 31. All of the following artistic choices could be made to speed up the reading pace of a poem except for A) The use of rhyme and rhyme scheme throughout the poem. B) The use of sound devices such as alliteration and consonance. C) The integration of punctuation such as commas or dashes frequently used throughout the poem. D) The elimination of or use of minimal punctuation throughout the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The integration of punctuation such as commas or dashes frequently used throughout the poem. 32. What is this?"stacks or stooks" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 33. Which of the following pairs of lines contains an example of enjambment? A) We keep the wall between us as we go. "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!". B) We have to use a spell to make them balance: To each the boulders that have fallen to each. C) Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out,. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out,. 34. Pattern of FIVE sets of unstressed-stressed syllables in a line of poetry: A) Iambic tetrameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Iambic hexmeter. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 35. Which of the following is true about blank verse? A) Yes rhythm, no rhyme. B) Yes rhythm, yes rhyme. C) No rhythm, yes rhyme. D) No rhythm, no rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes rhythm, no rhyme. 36. William Eno invented the stop sign, crosswalk, traffic circle, one-way street, and taxi stand-but never learned how to drive. A) Simile. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Clich. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 37. What is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas? A) Canto. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Caesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 38. In the poem, 'Fireflies in the Garden', Which insect is the poem about? A) Ants. B) Fireflies. C) Bees. D) Dragonflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fireflies. 39. "Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" is from which poem? A) Bayonet Charge. B) Remains. C) The Prelude. D) Poppies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Remains. 40. How long should you spend on the unseen poetry section (both parts) A) 30 minutes. B) 40 minutes. C) One hour. D) 45 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 45 minutes. 41. An atmosphere created by a writer's word choice and the details selected; the emotions of a scene; how it makes the reader feel. A) Foreshadowing. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Monotone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 42. A reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture A) Alliteration. B) Allegory. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 43. ..... is the feeling or atmosphere of a poem, how it makes the reader feel. A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 44. What is the best synonym for "perish" ? A) Win. B) Die. C) Battle. D) Decide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Die. 45. How does the imagery in Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 75 support the overall theme? A) Writing his love's name in the sand is temporary, but his words on paper will last forever. B) His love thinks he is vain for expecting their love to last and when she dies he knows she is right. C) The tide washes away the footprints of the speaker and his love, supporting the idea that they are only here on this earth for a short while. D) Like the ocean waves return, so will their love, always renewed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Writing his love's name in the sand is temporary, but his words on paper will last forever. 46. Why does the narrator say she can't be the shepherd's love? A) Because life and love does not last. B) Because they live too far away from each other. C) Because she cannot stand him. D) Because he does not have enough money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because life and love does not last. 47. Who is the god of thunder and rain? A) Vishwakarma. B) Shiva. C) Indra. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indra. 48. Personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia are all ..... A) Sound Devices. B) Types of Poems. C) Poetic Structures. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 49. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "Outside, /A few cars hissing past, /Fog hanging like old/Coats between the trees." A) Imagery and hyperbole. B) Hyperbole and metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia and metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia and simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia and simile. 50. A nine line stanza is called A) Septet. B) Setset. C) Quintain. D) Spenserian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spenserian. 51. A ..... is a funny five line poem with a rhyme pattern of AABBA. A) Concrete. B) Lyric. C) Narrative. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 52. The writer's attitude about their subject A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 53. Slanted language A) Metaphor. B) Literal language. C) Repetition. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 54. Words that add musical quality to the poem A) Sound Devices. B) Connotation. C) Imagery. D) Sensory Details. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound Devices. 55. Indra made ..... fall. A) Rain. B) Clouds. C) Trees. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rain. 56. What is the writing style:Prose? A) Written in paragraph form and does not rhyme. B) A rhyming story with stanzas. C) A script that people can act out. D) A song. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Written in paragraph form and does not rhyme. 57. Of Homer's two epics, this is known as the journey epic. A) The Iliad. B) Rhapsode. C) Chios. D) The Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Odyssey. 58. Which of these is NOT a Romantic poet? A) Blake. B) Wordsworth. C) Owen. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Owen. 59. What type of figurative language is shown?Her smile was as bright as sunshine. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 60. Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another A) Stanza. B) Mood. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 8Poetry Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books