This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 290 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 290 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Less is more" is an example of what poetic device? A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 2. The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 3. "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. A type of figurative language that shows an object or animal acting like a human. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. A very long narrative poem that tells of a hero's deeds A) Sonnet. B) Free verse poem. C) Epic. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 6. A writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. This is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Inference. C) Suspense. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 7. Long, Narrative Poem that tells a story of a hero or historical figure or event. A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Dramatic Monologue. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 8. Two lines of poetry that rhyme (AA) A) Ode. B) Couplet. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 9. "word-picture;" an image is a word or group of words that refers to something that can be experienced by the senses A) Poetic voice. B) Image. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Image. 10. What do we call a song or song-like poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain? A) An elegy. B) An epic. C) A sonnet. D) A ballad. E) An ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A ballad. 11. What does onomatopoeia mean? A) Words that rhyme. B) Words that sound like the sound they stand for. C) Words that end in "ing". D) Words that begin and end with the same letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that sound like the sound they stand for. 12. "The air is drugged with azalea blossoms" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. The dictionary definition of the word. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) End rhyme. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 14. How many stanzas? A) 15. B) 14. C) 7. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 15. A comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as (is, are, was) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. A songlike narrative poem that features repetition and strong meter A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Ode. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 17. Part that stands for a whole ..... A) Synecdoche. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metonymy. D) Synonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 18. Which of these is an example of end rhyme? A) "This little piggy went to market, / This little piggy stayed home, / This little piggy had roast beef, / This little piggy had none, / And this little piggy cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home.". B) "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ". C) "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the Night;". D) "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes / Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;" . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the Night;". 19. The flow of the beat in a poem, giving poetry a musical feel A) Mood. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 20. "I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing." -Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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