This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 232 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 232 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech in which two things are compared without using like or as. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Words that echo their sound (sizzle, chitter, bang, buzz) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. The use of words or phrases to paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 4. Calls something to mind without directly mentioning it. Refers to another movie, person, event, literary work, etc. A) Symbolism. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 5. "Knock, knock. Who's There" ..... A) Birds!. B) Edgar Allen Poe!. C) We are!. D) Poetry!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We are!. 6. The person who reads the poem. A) Reader. B) Speaker. C) Poet. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader. 7. The poet's attitude toward the subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 8. What type of poem has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern? A) Free verse. B) Narrative. C) Limerick. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 9. What poetic sound device is usedin this sentence? The garden hose was a long green serpentlying in loops on the lawn. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. Elements that help you imagine how something tastes, looks, sounds, feels, or smells A) Figurative language. B) Mood. C) Sensory details. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory details. 11. In a poem, the lesson or statement the author is making is called the ..... (the main idea) A) Stanza. B) Theme. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 12. Place/places or the time where the story takes place, different from the place of the performance A) Setting. B) Scene. C) Set. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 13. A poem usually about love A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Limerick. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 14. A rarely used couplet with the first line in iambic hexameter and the second in iambic heptameter would be A) Poulter's measure. B) Diastich. C) Closed couplet. D) Open couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poulter's measure. 15. Language that emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader ..... see, hear, feel, smell and taste things that are described in the work/poem. Words that create a mental picture. A) Imagery. B) Literal Language. C) Figurative Language. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. What is the denotation of the word summer? A) Fun, no school, sleeping in. B) Blue. C) The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August. 17. I wish I could just click my heels ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 18. What term refers to a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent a part? A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Zeugma. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 19. Because the school year is flying by I am feeling exhausted.Add the comma. A) Because the school year is flying by, I am feeling exhausted. B) No paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the school year is flying by, I am feeling exhausted. 20. Usually at the end of a line, has a pattern of rhyme. It can be AABBCA A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Mood. C) Poet. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. ← 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