This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 274 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 274 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference to a famous person, place, event, or piece of literature is called a(n) ..... A) Inference. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem? ..... Roses are red, We have the FLU.I can't smell anything And neither can YOU A) A, C, A, B. B) A, B, C, B. C) A, B, C, C. D) A, B, A, B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A, B, C, B. 3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below? Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. A) AABB. B) Father. C) ABCD. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AABB. 4. What is the purpose of "I, Too, " by Langston Hughes? A) He had nothing else to do. B) To tell us he loved to eat in the kitchen instead of at a dining room table. C) To share an idea of how African Americans had been treated at a particular time in America's history. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To share an idea of how African Americans had been treated at a particular time in America's history. 5. The narrator of a poem (not always the poet) A) Couplet. B) Speaker. C) Edwin Arlington Robinson. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 6. To put something into your own words; short and concise. A) Repetition. B) Syntax. C) Paraphrase. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paraphrase. 7. Used instead of sentences; rows of words in a poem A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Sentences. D) Phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 8. Giving human qualities to a non-human noun. "The old car coughed and sputtered." A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. There is a direct statement of the similarity between two items, through theuse of such words as like or as A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Similarly. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Similarly. 10. Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. "A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired." Dad jokes are often punny. A) Prose. B) Pun. C) Quatrain. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 11. Use of words that imitate sound A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Naming. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naming. 12. 'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roaris an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 13. I feel blue today (blue = sad) A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 14. A literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings A) Irony. B) Assonance. C) Apostrophe. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 15. What is the following statement an example of? The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is restated A) Stanza. B) Repetition. C) Line. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 17. A humorous verse form of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba A) Limerick. B) Verse. C) Tercet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 18. The pattern of a poem A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 19. A figure of speech that suggests a similarity between two different things (usually using "like" or "as")is called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. Unconnected A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. C) Repetition of accented vowel sounds in a sentence ex) he cried a sigh of high denial. D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. ← 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