This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 196 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 196 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is a type of poetry which does not rhyme, but contains meter. A) Blank verse. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Open form. D) Sestina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 2. Choose the metaphor A) His room needed to be clean. B) I am not feeling well today. C) She was a volcano ready to explode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was a volcano ready to explode. 3. A ..... is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin. A) Line Break. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 4. All the emotions and feelings associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 5. There is only one example of imagery; the rest are examples of figurative language. Choose the imagery example. A) Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef. B) The boy stood there, taut as a drawn arrow. C) The mutter of the sea at sunset. D) The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water. 6. The use of ordinary language is called A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Prose. D) SIFT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 7. The way a poet/speaker feels about the topic of the poem A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Metered. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. It's the lesson or moral of the story. A) Meter. B) Diction. C) Assonance. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 9. This is an example of a:While the smoothest stones Try to skip and hop across, The pond claims them all A) Haiku. B) Elegy. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 10. ..... is the feeling that a reader gets after reading a piece of literature. A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Mood. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 11. This type of poem has common words and usually a refrain. it appeals to most people and tells a story. A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 12. Giving human qualities to a non-human thing. This is intentional. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Humanizing. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Using any language element more than once A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 14. Compares two unlike things without using like or as; says one thing is another A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. A figure of speech in which a person not present is addressed A) Apostrophe. B) Voice. C) Diction. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 16. What is the definition of a personification? A) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. B) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. C) Giving a non-human thing human characteristics. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giving a non-human thing human characteristics. 17. My shirt is blue.(Blue = color, not sad) A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Euphemism. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 18. How is mood expressed in a literary work? A) Through imagery, word choice, setting, voice, and theme. B) Through the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns. C) Through the author's unique articulation or expression of language. D) Through the basic form of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through imagery, word choice, setting, voice, and theme. 19. The authors attitude toward the subject of the text. A) Tone. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 20. Illustrating one idea through a more well-known idea, similar to the first A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) Rhetorical question. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. ← 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