This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 194 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 194 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The author's right to break the rules of proper writing in order to achieve an effect or get a point across. A) Poetic Licence. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic Licence. 2. When referring to writing choices made in the poem, you refer to the A) Speaker. B) Creator. C) Narrator. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet. 3. What word is defined as "a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them" ? A) Homophone. B) Idiom. C) Analogy. D) Homograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 4. What is the attitude of the author toward the audience, the characters, the subject, or the work itself? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 5. Poem that forms the shape of a diamond A) Limerick. B) Free verse. C) Refrain. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diamonte. 6. ..... is when words have the same ending sounds. A) Lines. B) Stanzas. C) Rhyming. D) Line breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming. 7. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form-usually lines and stanzas. A) Figurative language. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 8. He's as strong as an ox A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. A poem, discourse, or utterance of a character in a drama that has the form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 10. The literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning; opposite of connotation. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Truth. D) Abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 11. A frog sat on a log in the bog. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 12. Annotation helps you to interact with the text for better reading comprehension. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:personification A) Exaggerated statement to highten effect. B) Giving the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or idea. C) Implied comparison between 2 unlike things-NO like or as. D) Expressions that can't be translated directly into another language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giving the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or idea. 14. ..... poems do not have to rhyme. A) Haiku. B) Rhyming. C) Free Verse. D) Dr. Seuss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 15. The angle from which a writer tells a story or poem. A) Theme. B) Point of view. C) Monologue. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 16. The thick bricks stick quick A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 17. Refers to word choice A) Denotation. B) Ballad. C) Meter. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 18. Simile and metaphor function the same way but are slightly different. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The atmosphere or emotion of the poem is called A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 20. What term refers to a type of poetry that originated in Japan and consists of three lines with a syllable count of 5-7-5? A) Villanelle. B) Rondeau. C) Haiku. D) Pantoum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. ← 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