This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 149 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 149 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A three-line Japanese poem that follows this syllable pattern:5, 7, 5 A) Haiku. B) Ode. C) Free Verse Poem. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 2. In poetry, authors tend to use ..... to appeal to the senses of the audience. Choose the best answer. A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Understatement. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 3. Poetic persona; speaker of poem's unique way of saying things A) Diction. B) Poetic voice. C) Tone. D) Poetic device. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic voice. 4. ..... is a description of an object, animal, place, or idea as if it were human or had human qualities. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. True or False:Litotes is an extreme understatement A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. A speech given by a single character in a story. A) Denotation. B) Monologue. C) Connotation. D) Persona. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 7. The repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 8. Select the onomatopoeia below? A) The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum. B) You were as brave as a lion. C) Love is a battlefield. D) The blanket wrapped its arms around me. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum. 9. What is the definition of a symbolism? A) A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as". B) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase. C) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. D) Giving a non-human thing human characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. 10. "The city was a jungle" is an example of what? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 11. A reference to a famous person, place, or thing A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above? A) 1 stanza. B) 2 stanzas. C) 4 stanzas. D) 8 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 stanzas. 13. What is this an example of? deer, sheer, peer, we're A) Repetition. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Symbolism. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 14. Comparison of two things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Similitude. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Literal A) The basic dictionary meaning of a word. B) Additional meaning attached to a word, usually a feeling. C) Meaning exactly what it says. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meaning exactly what it says. 16. Unique point of view or attitude towards a subject A) End-stop. B) Metaphor. C) Poetic voice. D) Foot/feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic voice. 17. Exaggeration (ex:I am so hungry I could eat a horse.) A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. Repetition of beginning sounds in two or more words in a line or stanza. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. The comparison of two things in which one is said to be another is called ..... A) Simile. B) Rhyming words. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. A pattern of strong beats in speech or writing, especially in poetry A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). B) Rhythm (ritmo). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm (ritmo). ← 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