This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 190 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 190 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Meter can be defined as ..... A) Quite simply, the number of beats or syllables per line of poetry. B) The author's attitude toward the subject, created by the author's specific word choices and poetic structure. Ex:positive, negative, awestruck, encouraging, etc. C) A type of figurative language which says one thing but means another; it is not meant to be taken literally, but it is meant to create an emotional effect in readers. D) When words have the same or similar sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quite simply, the number of beats or syllables per line of poetry. 2. The feeling a reader gets from the poem A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 3. Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of ..... A) Figurative language. B) Sensory language. C) Genres. D) Media. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 4. What is a comparison of two things using like or as? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Words with the same ending sound A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 6. "When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her." What is being personified? A) Adele. B) The store. C) High heels. D) Her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High heels. 7. A humorous funny 5 line poem in which lines 1, 2, 5 rhyme is called ..... ? A) Limerick. B) Cinquain. C) Acrostic. D) Couplet. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 8. A comparison between two things that are alike using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. Paddy's potatoes were prepared to perfection is an example of ..... A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Ode. D) Lyric poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 10. A story's/poem's central idea or lesson A) Simile. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 11. What is this an example of? "Go, go, go!" A) Repetition. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. Which describes a sonnet? A) 14 lines and 10 syllables per line. B) 3 unrhymed lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables. C) 5 lines with the rhyme scheme AABA. D) A poem that expresses emotion in first person. E) Written to or about a particular subject; not usually a lot of rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14 lines and 10 syllables per line. 13. Which is of the following is an example of a METAPHOR? A) Seth is as smart as an encyclopedia. B) Seth is tremendously smart. C) Seth is an encyclopedia. D) Seth is smart like an encyclopedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seth is an encyclopedia. 14. All lines in a poem must end with punctuation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. ..... is the repetition of sounds at the end of words/lines A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 16. A phrase whose literal meaning is different from the implied meaning; people understand the meaning because of its usage in the culture. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 17. True or False:There were many allusions to the Bible in the play "The Crucible" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. A metaphor..... A) Must use like/as. B) Does not use like/as. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does not use like/as. 19. A comparison of two things using "like, as than" or "resembles" (Ex. "She is as beautiful as a sunrise" or "As cold as Ice" or "I slept like a log") is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. What is Narrative poem A) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have no regular pattern or rhyme scheme. B) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have a regular repeated pattern. C) Poem that tells a story contains characters, conflict, plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poem that tells a story contains characters, conflict, plot. ← 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