This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most widely-read literature prior to the Renaissance was A) Classic Greek stories. B) Poetry, by the noble class. C) Religious works. D) Nonfiction, by scholars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religious works. 2. This era focused mostly on A) Feelings. B) Politics. C) Education. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feelings. 3. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud. A) My mother's hair is white. B) My mother's hair is very soft and smooth. C) My mother's hair is fluffy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My mother's hair is very soft and smooth. 4. Comparison of two unlike things through multiple sentences A) Sonnet. B) Consonance. C) Poetic forms. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 5. Which vehicle has three wheels? A) Autorickshaw. B) Bus. C) Bicycle. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autorickshaw. 6. A symbolic story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a particular hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one A) Analogy. B) Satire. C) Parody. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allegory. 7. Soft, smooth, snow falls silently from the sky is an example of which literary device? A) Personification. B) Caesura. C) Alliteration. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. Which vehicle has four wheels? A) Truck. B) Motorcycle. C) Tricycle. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Car. 9. Romance sonnets were mostly about A) Romance, love, and affection. B) Teaching moral lessons. C) Expressing a desire for one woman. D) An ode to something the poet loved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romance, love, and affection. 10. Gives human qualities to nonhuman or non-living subjects A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. Poetry that does not have a rhythm or rhyme scheme. A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Free Verse. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 12. In "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, " the speaker A) Is actually a young man. B) Says she'd rather have the money than him. C) Does not want the shepherd. D) Says that she'd only be with him if love could last. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Says that she'd only be with him if love could last. 13. Which word list has examples of assonance? A) Blue, super, suet. B) Boy, bear, barn. C) How, fly, sand. D) Blue, red, violet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue, super, suet. 14. The flowers danced in the gentle breeze. A) Parody. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. What is a prop in a play? A) A secret that the actors don't tell the director. B) The words that characters say in a play. C) A stand to hold something. D) The items that characters use in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The items that characters use in a play. 16. Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is the effect of the allusion to the Garden of Eden*? A) It creates imagery of a beautiful garden to help improve the poem. B) It creates a juxtaposition between the paradise of Eden and Nature. C) It changes the mood because Eden's paradise is now closed to humans. D) It doesn't affect the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It changes the mood because Eden's paradise is now closed to humans. 17. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most of the characters are doing, thinking, or feeling? A) 1st person. B) 3rd person omniscient. C) 2nd person. D) 3rd person limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3rd person omniscient. 18. Jason and Daniel are looking forward to the upcoming basketball season. Last year, their team had a lot of great players, but defense was their Achilles' heel. What does the phrase "Achilles heel" allude to? A) The story of Achilles whose heel was magical. B) The myth of Achilles whose heel was the only part of him that was mortal. A shot to the heel was the only way to kill Achilles. It was his weakness. C) The myth where Achilles overcame twelve labors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The myth of Achilles whose heel was the only part of him that was mortal. A shot to the heel was the only way to kill Achilles. It was his weakness. 19. Repetition of a VOWEL sound in non-rhyming words used close to one another A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 20. What is this?"bandage up me eye with me own history" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 21. Which author wrote The Lamb? A) Robert Burns. B) William Wordsworth. C) Samuel Coleridge. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 22. Read the following lines from the third and fourth stanzas of the poem. He stirred his velvet head-Like one in danger; cautious What does the word "stirred" mean as used in these lines? A) Mixed. B) Slowly nodded. C) Quickly moved. D) Held still. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quickly moved. 23. Central idea or universal statement of a work of literature A) Climax. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 24. An overused expression A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cliche. 25. An Italian sonnet has.. A) 3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet. B) 1 Octave, 2 Couplets. C) 1 Octave, 1 Sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 Octave, 1 Sestet. 26. What can animals represent in poetry? A) Speaking animals. B) Christian icons. C) The poet's pet. D) The reader's pet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christian icons. 27. ..... is a form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, sound, or structure to express something in an artistic way. A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 28. What is the below example known as?Example:'I saw the man walking fora long time and he didn't stopfor many years.' A) Enjambment. B) Figurative language. C) Allusion. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 29. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?My father is a bear in the morning. A) My father is hairy. B) My father is grumpy in the morning. C) My father is big. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My father is grumpy in the morning. 30. A poem that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about a single image, emotion, or idea A) Concrete. B) Narrative. C) Lyric. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 31. A metaphysical conceit is A) A comparison of two like things. B) An extended metaphor comparing two very unlike things. C) A logical proposal given in a poem. D) A cross between a simile and a standard metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An extended metaphor comparing two very unlike things. 32. A musical quality based on repetition A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 33. "The beautiful, blue, bright flowers grew in the garden" shows which term? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Blank verse. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 34. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story and the reader knows the thoughts of only one character? A) 3rd person limited. B) 2nd person. C) 1st person. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd person limited. 35. Choose the correct element.Hahahahahahaha A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 36. "The storm screamed in the night" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 37. How the speaker feels (their attitude) A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Poetry. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 38. Which sentence from the selection best appeals to the reader's sense of sight. A) "One by one, the insects climbed out.". B) "It was late in the day when they departed.". C) They marched into the woods that surrounded their underground home.". D) "Long shadows stretched over the entrance to the ant kingdom.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Long shadows stretched over the entrance to the ant kingdom.". 39. The running over of a sentence or thought from one line of poetry to another. A) Trochaic. B) Enjambment. C) Caesura. D) Spondaic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 40. ..... is any literature that is not poetry, such as short stories, essays, novels, etc. A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 41. Comparing love to "a stiff twin compass" is an example of A) Conceit. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 42. A poem that is meant to be sung; tells a story (often sad); refrains; simple rhyme scheme and regular meters A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Haike. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 43. What type of figurative language is shown?I have a million chores to do tonight! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 44. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is a character inside the story? A) 2nd person. B) 1st person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1st person. 45. Not literal language-not to be taken seriously A) Metaphor. B) Figurative language. C) Free verse. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 46. The message about life or life lesson that the poem or story shows is:(Ex:Love conquers all.) A) Alliteration. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 47. A form of Japanese poetry that has three lines; the subject has traditionally been nature. A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Canto. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 48. Imagery appeals to the ..... A) Crazy people. B) Brain. C) Senses. D) Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Senses. 49. What is this?"My city takes me dancing" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 50. How does the narrator describe the effects of loving Porphyria on him? A) He has become pale. B) His blood has become thin. C) He has lost interest in the world. D) He has become obsessed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has become pale. 51. The R iver r uns r apidly is what type of poetry term? A) End Rhyme. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 52. Who fell down and hurt his knee in the poem "A Good Play" ? A) Jerry. B) Tom. C) Rio. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom. 53. This stanza helps readers imagine the trees by appealing to "The willow's music is like a soprano, Delicate and thin. The ginkgo's tune is like a chorus, With everyone joining in." A) Sound. B) Smell. C) Sight. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound. 54. What feature of "A Bird Came Down the Walk" tells the reader that it is a poem? A) It has a bird as a character. B) It tells a story. C) It is written in stanzas. D) It is about nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is written in stanzas. 55. Which type of figurative language is represented in the following line:"Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 56. Which of these poets that we've read wrote during the Harlem Renaissance? A) Maya Angelou. B) Langston Hughes. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Anne Bradstreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Langston Hughes. 57. Life is a roller coaster. Is an example of .. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 58. Choose the correct element. Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 59. What is the repetition of consonant sounds? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 60. The third stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Green. B) Red. C) Blue. D) Orange. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blue. ← PreviousNext →Related 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