This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Creates vivid word pictures; five senses A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 2. What is the definition of apostrophe? A) When a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond. B) A comparison between two things that does not use any helping words. C) The repetition of vowel sounds. D) A brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond. 3. Define repetition A) The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem. B) Poems that do not follow set rules. C) Poems that follow the line pattern of 5-7-5 syllables per line. D) The use of a word or phrase more than once. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The use of a word or phrase more than once. 4. A comparison stating that one thing IS another A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. An example of the term "imagery" is ..... A) Oh her eyes, her eyes were shining. B) I was smiling with joy when I read that book. C) Laughing llamas are lounging. D) The smell of freshly baked bread made my mouth water as I neared the bakery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The smell of freshly baked bread made my mouth water as I neared the bakery. 6. The author's specific word choice. A) Rhythm. B) They say. C) Tone. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They say. 7. The man had Overstated or ..... his experience at playing the game. A) Exaggerated. B) Formated. C) Suggested. D) Judged. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exaggerated. 8. A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph is called ..... A) Per room. B) To see. C) Lyrics. D) A refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Per room. 9. What is this an example of? Don't be a Scrooge! A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Voice. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 10. Rhyme scheme is..... A) The first word of each line rhymes. B) The pattern of rhyming. C) Only used in sonnets. D) Most words in the poem rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pattern of rhyming. 11. Figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. A) Personification. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. Details or ideas from the text that connect back to the main idea A) Supporting details. B) Main idea. C) Summary. D) Gist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supporting details. 13. Giving non-human things human qualities such as feelings or actions A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. Like a paragraph within a poem A) Scheme. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 15. What is an end-stop line? A) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. B) When a line stops abruptly. C) The last line a poet ever writes. D) The end of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. 16. The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 17. What are the following an examples of? Philadelphia Flyers, Ms. McGuffin, green grass, wonderful win A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. A) Meter. B) Verse. C) Rhythm. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 19. Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry A) Theme. B) Assonance. C) Rhythm. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 20. Portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 21. In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising. A) The neighbor is very stingy. B) The neighbor is very jealous. C) The neighbor is very generous. D) The neighbor is very kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The neighbor is very stingy. 22. I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow! A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 23. A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen to create certain effects. A) Meter. B) Form. C) Tone. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 24. Author's feeling toward poem subject. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Figurative language. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 25. She soothed her secret sorrow. A) Alliteration. B) Onamatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 26. "Candy the yams and spice the hams, "This line is an example of ..... A) End line rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate/half or slant rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 27. An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tercet. 28. A humorous poem with a bouncing rhythm A) Limerick. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 29. What is the definition of tone? A) The ATTITUDE the write has towards the subject of the poem. B) The suggested meaning of a word. C) The mood of the poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ATTITUDE the write has towards the subject of the poem. 30. What is giving human traits to objects? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 31. A poem's form is the A) Message of the poem. B) Narrator of the poem. C) Structure or pattern that the poem follows. D) Reason the poet decided to write the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structure or pattern that the poem follows. 32. What is the reoccurrence of sounds, phrases, words, lines, or stanzas in a poem? A) Meter. B) Free verse. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 33. A ..... is a Japanese verse form with three lines. It uses imagery to create a nature scene. A) Lyrical. B) Limerick. C) Free verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 34. "Fast as lightning" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 35. An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says. A) Alteration. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idioms. 36. A line of poetry. Also used to refer to poetry in general that possesses more formal qualities. A) Time. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Synaesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 37. Which connotation is MORE positive? Some of the monkeys made ..... faces. A) Hilarious. B) Amusing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hilarious. 38. A sestet consists of ..... A) 6 lines. B) 7 lines. C) 8 lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6 lines. 39. What poetic device is used in the following title? Lilly's purple plastic purse A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 40. Musical quality in language produced by repetition A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Ballad. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 41. Attitude a writer takes toward a subject A) Speaker. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Tone. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 42. Discordance of rough or harsh sounds A) Synesthesia. B) Cacophony. C) Enjambment. D) Euphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. 43. A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 44. A humorous 5-line poem; usually begins with "There once was a ..... "; the third and fourth lines are shorter than lines 1, 3, & 5; rhyme scheme is AABBA A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Quatrain. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 45. The main unit of all poems is a ..... A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 46. A group of lines in a poem, separated by space A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Poetry. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 47. One unit of rhythm in a poem that shows the stressed/unstressed pattern A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 48. The aroma of chocolate filled the air. A) Gustatory. B) Olfactory. C) Auditory. D) Visual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Olfactory. 49. The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 50. Same Starting Sound in nearby words A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 51. Poetry is written in ..... A) Paragraphs. B) Lines and stanzas. C) Stanzas and paragraphs. D) Fragments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines and stanzas. 52. The most important point in a line of poetry; the pause or breath at the end of a line A) Mood. B) Line break. C) Collection. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line break. 53. "loud tie / soft blue / feel blue / noisy painting / She looks hot. / painful thought / screaming pink / taste in clothes / smell fear / sweet person / music stinks / thick words" are examples of ..... A) Anaphora. B) Chiasmus. C) Synecdoche. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synesthesia. 54. The rhyme scheme of a poem is ..... A) In free verse poetry. B) A plan to end the poem. C) The pattern of rhyme. D) The rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of rhyme. 55. An emotional or social association with a word, giving meaning beyond the literal definition A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Diction. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 56. What is a metaphor in poetry? A) A form of poetry that follows a specific rhyme scheme. B) A type of poem that tells a story. C) A type of punctuation used to separate items in a list. D) A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by stating that one thing is another thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by stating that one thing is another thing. 57. Why do poets use repetition? A) To create a sing song effect to the poem. B) To make you get an image in your head. C) To create suspense in poetry. D) Emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, stress importance, and/or develop a sense of urgency. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, stress importance, and/or develop a sense of urgency. 58. When what is expected is different from what actually happens A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 59. What is a synecdoche? A) Figure of speech where a part equals the whole. B) The way the author feels about the piece. C) Serious piece involving moral or spiritual advice. D) When the main idea in a sentence comes before a clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figure of speech where a part equals the whole. 60. Comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books