This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 243 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 243 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words that sound like what they are meant to representEx:Moo, Buzz, Bang A) Rhyme. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. Valediction A) A farewell speech. B) A greeting. C) A eulogy. D) A salutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A farewell speech. 3. The vantage point from which a story/poem is told. A) Point of View. B) Rhythm. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of View. 4. Figurative Language:Choose the simile. A) The sky is low, the clouds are mean. B) Down in their cabins, the sailors are sheep. C) The stormy seas as dark as coal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stormy seas as dark as coal. 5. Sound words:words, when pronounced, imitate the sound being made A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Paraphrase. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. Several verses or lines of a poem that are grouped together to describe an image, idea, or event A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 7. What is the definition of a line? A) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. B) A unit of language created to divide a poem. C) A word that sounds like how it is said. D) To put in your own words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A unit of language created to divide a poem. 8. What is the definition of the term:Diction? A) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. B) The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader; created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. 9. What is NOT an example of a symbol: A) Chains. B) White dove. C) Full moon. D) Soup. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soup. 10. Using an object or a word to represent an abstractEx:a heart = love A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 11. A word's dictionary definition. A) Connotation. B) Meter. C) Assonance. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 12. Any grouping of words in a poem or an entire poem A) Verse. B) Quatrain. C) Metaphor. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 13. A longer speech given by a single character. A) Dramatic monologue. B) Pentameter. C) Enjambment. D) Denouement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic monologue. 14. Using a situation, description, or quotethat draws another text to mindwithout actually naming the textin order draw a comparison and add meaningis called A) Metaphor. B) Metonymy. C) Symbol. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 15. ..... is the representation through language of sense experience. It occurs when the words of a poem relate to one of the five senses or a sense of feeling. A) Allusion. B) Juxtaposition. C) Imagery. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 16. Definition:Poetry that has no regular rhythm or meter A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Concrete Poem. D) Catalog Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 17. Writing with language chosen & arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm is A) Magazine. B) Poetry. C) Newspaper article. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 18. Lines are grouped together into A) Stanzas. B) Paragraphs. C) Chunks. D) Sections. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 19. What is the musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 20. Simile or Metaphor:My father is a bear in the morning. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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