This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is denotation? A) Literal meaning of a word. B) Attitude or emotion a word makes you feel. C) Person, place, or thing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal meaning of a word. 2. Used to add impact or emphasis to a piece of writing A) Denotation. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Figurative language. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 3. Which of these quotes features a simile? A) The tree danced in the wind during the storm. B) The tree was home to many animals. C) The tree was as strong as a warrior. D) The tree was a million years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tree was as strong as a warrior. 4. The phrase below is an example of which type of figurative langauge?The markers tattooed an image of Kobe on my notebook. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Any writing that is not poetry A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Prose. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 6. Sixteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets (set of three lines) and one quatrain (set of four lines). They use the rhyme scheme of ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Expression. D) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Villanelle. 7. What is the term for the use of words to create a picture in the reader's mind? A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 8. What is a rhyme scheme? A) A 14-line poem with a set rhyme and rhythm. B) A direct reference to another work of literature, art, person, or event. C) The rhyme pattern in a poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rhyme pattern in a poem. 9. A poem that is shaped like a diamond, and the words describe opposite ideas. A) Triangle. B) Diamante. C) Bio-poem. D) Acrostic Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diamante. 10. Figurative language used to appeal to the five senses and create an image in the reader's mind is known as "imagery" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. A pair of lines that rhyme A) Haiku. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Rhyming couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming couplet. 12. A word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse A) Conceit. B) Cliche. C) 'rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cliche. 13. Big, bad Bernie Bean-Toes ate two banana bunches A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. The pattern of rhyme that happens at the end of each line A) Rhyme scheme. B) Meter. C) Free Verse. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 15. A poem with no set rhythm or rhyme A) Blank verse. B) Stanza. C) Free verse. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 16. The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or verse A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 17. ..... is to say the opposite of what you mean. Its goal is to be figurative-to say more than it seems. A) Synecdoche. B) Understatement. C) Sarcasm. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 18. How many lines should a quatrain have? A) 3 lines. B) 4 lines. C) 5 lines. D) 6 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4 lines. 19. Comparing two things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personsification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. Metaphors A) Describe one thing as if it were something else. B) Use like or as to compare two unlike things and show similarities between the two. C) Gives human qualities to something that is non-human (The Ocean crashed angrily.). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Describe one thing as if it were something else. ← 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