This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 280 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 280 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following words has positive connotation? A) Icy. B) Fortuitous. C) Traispe. D) Peril. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fortuitous. 2. Helps establish the poem's rhythm, affects the speed at which the poem is read and helps the poet create the poem's mood or feeling. A) Quatrain. B) Haiku. C) Line length. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line length. 3. There was an ongoing ..... between the step sisters. A) Dominion. B) Discord. C) Dismay. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discord. 4. Read the following poem and decide which two poetic devices the author uses. "The lighthouse, the guardian angel of the night, She shines her light for all the lost sailors passing by. Her beam bright as the sun, flashing through the night sky. The lighthouse, a soldier during the storms, Standing tall, unafraid of the chaos. Her light piercing through the storm like sharp knives. A) Simile, hyperbole. B) Hyperbole, personification. C) Metaphor, simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor, simile. 5. "The sun wrapped its warm arms around my shoulders, " is an example of what figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. The words "shh, " "boom, " and "tick-tock" are examples of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Terrible words. C) Names of poets. D) A simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 7. Which theme is NOT commonly seen in Dickinson's poetry? A) Death. B) God. C) The self. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 8. Compares two things using the words "like" or "as" A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 9. Galleys A) Line consisting of 11 syllables. B) First typeset version of a poem, magazine, and/or book/chapbook. C) Stanza of 8 lines. D) A repeated line within a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First typeset version of a poem, magazine, and/or book/chapbook. 10. The feeling the reader gets from reading the poem is called ..... A) Tone. B) Sense. C) Vibes. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 11. Rhyme means A) The overall structure of a poem. B) A poem's meter. C) Repeated sounds in two are more words. D) A single line of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repeated sounds in two are more words. 12. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a line of space; aka parapgraph of a poem A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 13. The general character, attitude or emotion of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. A) TONE. B) ALLUSION. C) THEME. D) PUN. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TONE. 14. Which is an example of "line" ? A) While walking to my neighbor's house,. B) My cat is like a dog because he follows me everywhere. C) That football player is a beast!. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) While walking to my neighbor's house,. 15. 3rd Person Point of View A) Key words:I, me, we, our. B) Key words:you, your. C) Key words:He, she, they, their. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Key words:He, she, they, their. 16. The organizational pattern or structure of poetry. A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Punctuation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 17. Repeating an image, symbol, or idea again and again in a work of literature or poem. A) Motif. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) Sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 18. Poetic devices like onomatopoeias, rhymes, and alliteration all fall into the category of ..... A) Sound devices. B) Form. C) Figurative language. D) Useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound devices. 19. Which term means the repetition of consonant sounds inside or at the end of words? A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 20. Repetition of the beginning sound A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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