This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 215 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 215 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, or repetition. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Voice. 2. Making a non-human object have human qualities is called ..... For example:The river tripped and skipped over the rocks on its way to the ocean. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Syllable. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. "My lips are dumb" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. What is the extended metaphor? A) Smiling. B) The world. C) Clay. D) The mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mask. 6. This is like a paragraph for a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 7. What is the usual rhyme scheme used in Dickinson's poerty? A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABAC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 8. Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Elegy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 9. Authoritative works of a writer & an accepted list of works perceived to represent cultural, ideological, historical etc. grouping A) Trope. B) Archetype. C) Canon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canon. 10. What is NOT in a Haiku poem? A) Dealing with nature. B) 5, 7, 5 syllables for 3 lines. C) Feelings or actions. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 11. A dove representing the idea of peace is using ..... A) Symbolism. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 12. "O my love is like a red, red, rose"This line is an example of everything except: A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas that tells a story and is meant to be sung. A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 14. Repeated vowel sounds in a line of poetry is called ..... A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 15. Allthe meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to somewords, in addition to their literal dictionary definition. A) Connotation. B) Meter. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 16. A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed one ( / / U ) A) Anapest. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dactyl. 17. A pattern of stressed syllables, or words that sound the same are called ..... A) Rhythm / rhyme. B) Repetition / refrain. C) Lines. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm / rhyme. 18. A poem that expresses personal thoughts and feelings of a speaker; can be set to music A) Stanza. B) Lyric poem. C) Line. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poem. 19. What is the following an example of? The sun smiled down on me as I walked home from school. A) Personification. B) Stanza. C) Oxymoron. D) Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. A poem that has five lines and a total of 22 syllables, distributed in a specific 2-4-6-8-2 pattern is called a ..... A) Ballad. B) Cinquain. C) Sonnet. D) Diamante. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinquain. ← 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