This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 108 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 108 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A musical quality in language; the beat A) Rhythm. B) Hyperbole. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 2. What is a comparison of two different things using the word like or as? A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 3. What device is used here:Good as gold Busy bee Living the life A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. An extravagant exaggeration that couldn't possibly be true; used to make a point. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. A poem with 4 lines in each stanza that follow a rhyme scheme and usually tells a story is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Free verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 6. Using words to create a picture in the reader's mind. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 7. What does "irony" mean? A) The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. B) A coincidence that is very unlikey. C) A reference to something in history or literature. D) Language that appeals to the senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. 8. The dictionary definition of a word is called the A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Diction. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 9. Expresses the author's or poet's attitude towards his/ her subject. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 10. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two different things without the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Choose the correct figurative language Snow White's hair is black like charcoal. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. A struggle within a story. It can be between the protagonist and antagonist, between the protagonist and his society, or the protagonist and nature A) Juxtaposition. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) External conflict. E) Inner conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) External conflict. 13. What a word suggests beyond what it expresses. The feeling associated with the word. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 14. Pentameter A) Stanza of 5 lines. B) Line consisting of 5 metrical feet. C) Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry. D) Line consisting of 6 metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line consisting of 5 metrical feet. 15. A songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings A) Lyric. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 16. Capitalization, line length, and word choice is an example of which type of literary element? A) Simile. B) Graphical elements. C) Hyperbole. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graphical elements. 17. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckleAt every step you missedMy right ear scraped a buckle The italicized words are examples of words that represent: A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 18. What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised? A) Style. B) Substance. C) Suspense. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 19. The best kinds of people stand up tall, No matter how hard they fall. The best kinds of people are honest and true. The best kind of person, my dear, is you.What technique do you notice here? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. Poems that do not rhyme but consist of iambic pentameter A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Narrative Poem. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books