This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 254 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 254 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the central message or idea of a poem called? A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 2. The "narrator" of the poem A) Meter. B) Speaker. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 3. The appearance of the words on the page A) Line. B) Form. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 4. A comparison in which the poet writes about one thing as if it is something else:A = B, with the qualities of B transferred to A A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. Central idea of a work of literature A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Theme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 6. Which of the following details led you to choose the line you identified in question 9? 1 I wandered lonely as a cloud 2 That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 3 When all at once I saw a crowd, 4 A host, of golden daffodils; 5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. A) The poet compares two unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing. B) The poet describes a nonhuman subject as having human characteristics. C) The poet compares two unlike things using the word like or as. D) The poet uses one thing to represent something other than itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet compares two unlike things using the word like or as. 7. Alliteration is defined as ..... A) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words in a row. B) The repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of multiple words. C) A comparison using "like" or "as". D) Descriptive words using the five senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words in a row. 8. A comparison between 2 or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unlike A) Extended metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 9. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. This is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. A) Denotation. B) Tone. C) Parallelism. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 11. A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines (like the chorus of a song) A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Refrain. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 12. Why is it important that the mask "hides cheeks and shades eyes" instead of nose, teeth, ears, etc? A) They are randomly chosen by the author. B) These parts of the face are vital for making expressions of emotion. C) Those are his favorite parts. D) Those are the only parts that maska cover. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) These parts of the face are vital for making expressions of emotion. 13. "Lurk late ..... Sing Sin ..... Jazz June" are examples of ..... A) Topic. B) Alliteration. C) Free verse. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. The repetition of initial consonant sounds:Susie sold sea shells down by the seashore. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 15. The poem is told from the point of view of the ..... A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 16. The poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns of meter or rhyme A) Prose. B) Free verse. C) Mood. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 17. A comparison of two things that does NOT use like or as A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 18. Words with the same ending syllables (bat, cat, rat, KitKat) A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 19. Repetition of sounds at the ends of words, can be at the end of the lines or within the lines A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Tone. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 20. The author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the CONTRAST between the two to compare them. A) Foot. B) Pentameter. C) Trochee. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. ← 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