This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A Petrarchan sonnets rhyme scheme is A) Syllabic in pattern. B) 14 lines only. C) Abab/cdcd/efef/gg. D) Abba/abba/cde/cde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abba/abba/cde/cde. 2. Lord Indra called his carpenter because ..... A) His wooden table was broken. B) He wanted a new chair. C) He wanted new furniture. D) His bow was broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His bow was broken. 3. In the poem, 'Fireflies in the Garden', What does the poet compare fireflies to in this poem? A) Stars. B) Planets. C) Planes. D) Comets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stars. 4. What genre is Vergil's Aeneid? A) Epic poetry. B) Tragedy. C) Comedy. D) Lyric poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poetry. 5. Repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. The pattern of repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A) Rhythm. B) Sonnet. C) Refrain. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 7. A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself (literal/concrete meaning) and for something beyond itself (figurative/abstract meaning); often visual, reappear throughout a text, and are associated with figurative language A) Flashback. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 8. Which literary term describes the events of the story? A) Conflict. B) Plot. C) Climax. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 9. 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 is Frost thinking about in this poem? A) Desire. B) Hate. C) Love. D) The end of the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The end of the world. 10. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end or a line, couplet, or stanza ..... A) Apostrophe. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanza. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 11. A rose represents love, winter represents death, red represents passion, etc. A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Allegory. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 12. Repeating the same consonant anywhere within words, not just at the beginning. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 13. BUZZ is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 14. What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Litotes. D) Similar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. What is the first thing Porphyria does when she enters? A) She lights a fire. B) She takes off her hat and gloves. C) She sits next to the narrator. D) She dries her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She lights a fire. 16. This is a group of words written in sentences and paragraphs, like you would read in a novel or essay. A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Novel. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 17. A three line stanza is a A) Terttrain. B) Terlet. C) Tercet. D) Terter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tercet. 18. I cried, why? Why my life? A) Assonance. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 19. What is an identical or very similar recurring final syllable sounds in pairs of words? A) Rhizome. B) Rhythm. C) Rhinoceros. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 20. Read this sentence from the selection. "When the scout presented the crystal to the aunt queen she took a small bite, then quickly ate the entire thing."This sentence shows that ..... A) The queen was puzzled. B) The queen was hungry. C) The queen enjoyed the taste. D) The queen was in a hurry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The queen enjoyed the taste. 21. The theme or central message of a poem is its ..... A) Moral lesson. B) Main idea. C) Speaker's voice. D) Stated purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Main idea. 22. In THE HUNTSMAN, What is the alliteration that can be found in the sentence below?""Kagwa hurried home" A) Hurried home. B) Kagwa hurried. C) Kagwa home. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hurried home. 23. Cast of characters is frequently found in A) Plays. B) Poems. C) Prose. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plays. 24. I distinctly remember the sadness I felt in December. What type of rhyme is this above line? A) Center Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Midrhyme. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal Rhyme. 25. Two lines in a row that rhyme. A) Couplet. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Rhthym. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 26. In supernatural gothic, the supernatural elements are ..... A) Real. B) Eventually discovered to not be real or have rational explanations. C) Maybe real or maybe not we don't know. D) Extra terrifying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Real. 27. Smooth, pleasant sound choice and arrangement A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. C) Symphony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphony. 28. A poem that contains 14 lines (10 syllables per line) and is written in iambic pentameter. A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 29. On the bottle was a skull and crossbones. A) Symbol. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 30. What is this?"spits like a tame cat" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 31. Straightforward language A) Literal language. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal language. 32. Jack zipped up his sleeping bag. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 33. Assonance can best be described as A) Repetition of vowel sounds within a line. B) Exaggeration. C) Words that are spelled like they sound. D) Repetition of the first letter or sound of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of vowel sounds within a line. 34. What idea is the speaker emphasizing?"I want them to waterski A) A poet must be able to understand others' appreciation of poems. B) Comparing poetry to sports can help you better understand literature. C) The act of water-skiing is something usually associated with poetry. D) To have fun with poetry, enjoy it and know who the writer is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To have fun with poetry, enjoy it and know who the writer is. 35. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues A) Analogy. B) Satire. C) Parody. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire. 36. Where was Porphyria before she came to the cottage? A) A party. B) The pub. C) At home. D) A feast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A feast. 37. A poem is a type of A) Play. B) Drama. C) Prose. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 38. What is the central idea of a literary work? A) Litotes. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 39. Read these lines from the fourth and fifth stanzas. And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide the ocean What is the bird most likely doing in these lines? A) Flying quietly away. B) Swimming away. C) Cleaning his feathers. D) Rowing a boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flying quietly away. 40. Which one of the following lines contains alliteration? A) Latticework of branches. B) Drifting down like clean. C) A glass overflowing. D) High into the empty air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drifting down like clean. 41. Choose the rhyming word for 'say' A) Lay. B) Way. C) Both a and b. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 42. Y'all is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Diction. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 43. The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 44. What is the sound device that means consecutive lines beginning with the same word? A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 45. What is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza? A) Metric Feet. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Iambic. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 46. "Frost cracking/Beneath my steps, my breath/Before me" contains ..... to ..... A) Hyperbole, to show exaggerated emotions. B) Simile, to compare the breathing with emotions. C) Alliteration, to stress the cold. D) Idiom, to repeat a commonly used expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration, to stress the cold. 47. What do you call an eight-line stanza? A) Couplet. B) Eightet. C) Septet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. 48. In THE HUNTSMAN, what is the tone of the poem? A) Excited. B) Suspense. C) Scared. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspense. 49. An example of direct characterization is ..... A) Erin wondered whether their parents were home, and what would happen when they found out what happened. B) He wore shabby shoes, and there were holes in his jacket. C) He said, "Dude, I've never been into that kind of music!". D) She was graceful, like a ballerina, and yet somehow, also, endearingly clumsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was graceful, like a ballerina, and yet somehow, also, endearingly clumsy. 50. Who created the term "romantic period" ? A) Romantic Poets. B) Current Novelists. C) Victorian Critics. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Victorian Critics. 51. Which sound device uses a pattern of rhyme? (Ex. ABAB) A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 52. Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Onomatopeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 53. Read line 4 in the poem below, what does this literally mean?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) He runs alone. B) He left something behind. C) He runs very very quickly. D) He forgot to run fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He runs very very quickly. 54. Which vehicle has two wheels? A) Car. B) Truck. C) Bicycle. D) Autorickshaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bicycle. 55. Which poem celebrates the source of one's beauty and confidence? A) "Upon the Burning of our House". B) "El Dorado". C) "Phenomenal Woman". D) "Sympathy". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Phenomenal Woman". 56. Where the audience knows more than the characters. We know more than the characters do with creates humor or suspense. A) "Iron't" I funny?. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 57. This line most relates to which element of Romanticism?"Beside the lake, beneath the trees, " A) Spirituality/supernatural. B) Nature. C) Youth/innocence. D) Rejecting tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 58. Where did the boys build the ship? A) In the room. B) In the corner. C) In the hall. D) Upon the stairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Upon the stairs. 59. What is not a figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Oversaying. C) Under-statement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oversaying. 60. Read the following poem:What does line 1 mean?AppetiteIn a house the size of a postage stamplived a man as big as a bargeHis mouth could drink the entire riverYou could say it was rather largeFor dinner he would eat a trillion beansAnd a silo full of gran. A) That the man was very tiny. B) That the man was very large. C) That the house was very tiny. D) That the house was very large. 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