This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 138 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 138 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read the following poem and decide which two poetic devices the author uses. "It sushes, It hushes, The loudness in the road. It flitter-twitters, And laughs away from me. It laughs a lovely whiteness, And whitely whirs away To be some otherwhere. Still white as milk or shirts, So beautiful it hurts." A) Onomatopoeia, transport. B) Metaphor, hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia, simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia, simile. 2. The place in the poem where the line ends. A) Sensory Language. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Line Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line Break. 3. Mood is ..... A) The feeling a text gives to readers. B) The attitude of the writer. C) The point of view. D) The genre of a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The feeling a text gives to readers. 4. When you substitute language that is less direct and vague for another that is considered harsh, blunt, or offensive. An example:passed away/died A) Euphemism. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 5. The use of words which imitate sound A) Metaphor. B) Interjection. C) Meter. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 6. The use of the same word, idea, or phrase for rhythm or emphasis A) Internal rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. "Jack Sprat could eat no fat." A) Repetition. B) Internal rhyme. C) External rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 8. "Once upon a midnight weary, while I pondered, weak and weary." Which of the following is included in this line? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Verse and rhythmic writing that creates an emotional response A) Poetry. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 10. The repitition of initial stressed consonant sounds in a series of words within a prhase or verse lineex:Sally sold seashells by the seashore. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. What figurative language appeals to the five senses? A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. A reference the author expects the reader to recognize A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Tone. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 13. A short poem expressing the strong feelings or emotions of the speaker. A) Lyric. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 14. Poetry not written in traditional meter or rhyme A) Heroic couplet. B) Free verse. C) Blank verse. D) Third rhyma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 15. What does "symbol" mean? A) Comparing two online things using the verb "is". B) Exaggeration. C) Something that stands for something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something that stands for something else. 16. Identify the correct definition of enjambment from the options below A) Where two words sound the same. B) When a line of poetry runs on into the next line, without punctuation, for an effect. C) Regular, patterned repetition of sounds through syllables. D) A writing principle that suggests that a trio of events is more engaging to the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When a line of poetry runs on into the next line, without punctuation, for an effect. 17. ..... is a comparison of two things, using the words like or as.Example:Tony was as fast as a cheetah. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. Petrarchan sonnet A) Poetry that does not ryhme or does not have a regular meter. B) Meter consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. C) Repitition of a vowel sound or dipthong in non-ryhming words. D) A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. 19. The words of a song A) Lyric. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme scheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 20. Rhyming of the vowel sound (name-train, fight-like) A) Assonant. B) Masculine. C) Feminine. D) Near Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Half Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonant. ← 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