This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 271 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 271 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Diana can sing, but she is no Mariah Carey is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 2. Exaggerated claims not meant to be taken seriously A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 3. What is a repeated word or line of words called in poetry? A) Blank verse. B) Rhyme. C) Refrain. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 4. How could you describe the TONE of the Dr. Seuss "ABC Rap?" A) Silly and playful. B) Critical, then optimistic. C) Sad, then even sadder. D) Happy, then angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silly and playful. 5. Anything that represents something else. A) Narrative. B) Free verse. C) Lyric. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 6. What is a comparison of two different things that states one thing is another thing and that does not use the word like or as? A) Idiom. B) Lyrical poem. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 7. The suggested or implied meaning of a word; the emotional association attached to a word. A) Catharsis. B) Connotation. C) Climax. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 8. Mister Sun wakes up at dawn A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. A syntactic pause within a poetic line A) Apostrophe. B) Epistrophe. C) Enjambment. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cesura. 10. What is the correct term for the following definition? the words a writer uses to create images. A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Sensory Language. D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory Language. 11. What is the repetition of consonant sounds in words? Example:Talia tutored Tiffany twice. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. All about opposites! The poem combines opposites in a single, seven-line poem:the word of the last line is the opposite of the word of the first line. The lines in between describe either the starting word or its opposite. A) Quatrain. B) Limerick. C) Acrostic. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diamonte. 13. The author uses words that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, taste, feel, etc to help you make a mental picture A) Imagery. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. Define Hyperbole A) A direct comparison between two unlike things, saying one thing IS another, using the "to be" verb, not "like" or "as.". B) Exaggerated used for emphasis or effect. C) An explicit comparison between two unlike things using the word "like" or "as.". D) Vivid, descriptive language that appeals to the senses; taste, touch, smell, hear, see, feel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggerated used for emphasis or effect. 15. A run-on line of poetry where logical, grammatical sense carries over from 1 line to the next. A) Couplet. B) Rhyme. C) Enjambment. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 16. If you write an ....., you write a short note in a diary or book. A) Desires. B) Mosaics. C) Entry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entry. 17. Haiku's original theme was: A) Love. B) Friendship. C) Feminism. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 18. It is a pattern in which the last words at the end of lines of poetry sound alike. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Internal Rhyme. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End Rhyme. 19. A humorous poem that has 5 lines, an "aabba" rhyming pattern, and a specific rhythm. A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 20. The use of any language element more than once A) Repetition. B) Sound device. C) Quatrain. D) Tercet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. ← 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