This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "[Love] is the star to every wandering bark [ship]" is an example of a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. A poem that tells a story A) Elegy. B) Assonance. C) Refrain. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative. 3. Prose A) The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. B) Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. C) The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line. D) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. 4. A funny poem made up of five lines that rhyme in a set pattern A) Free verse. B) Meter. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 5. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? The flashing lights of the police car alerted us that something was wrong. A) Hear. B) Taste. C) Sight. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sight. 6. A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true A) Paradox. B) Juxtaposition. C) Analogy. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 7. Words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definitions. For example:similes and metaphors. A) Figurative language. B) Content. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 8. A larger-than-life figure who embodies the ideals of a nation or race. A) Epic poem. B) Epithet. C) Epic hero. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic hero. 9. Metrical foot consisting of an accented (stressed) syllable followed by an unaccented (unstressed) syllable A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Meter. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trochee. 10. The message or lesson that the poet is trying to communicate with the reader A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 11. What is a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. A) Apostrophe. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 12. Sonnets are: A) Poems that usually rhyme. B) "little songs" or poems that are 14 lines long. C) A type of hat-colorful bonnets. D) Shakespeare wrote 25 of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "little songs" or poems that are 14 lines long. 13. An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Understatement. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. Onomatopoeia A) Name of one thing is applied to another which its closely associated ex) pen is mightier than sword. B) Words that mimic the sounds they describe ex) hiss, buzz. C) Form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into single unusual expression. D) Contradictory statement that may prove true upon close examination ex) standing is more tiring than walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that mimic the sounds they describe ex) hiss, buzz. 15. Having the same pattern of accented and unaccented syllables A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. Description that draws on the five senses to create a picture for the reader A) Juxtaposition. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) External conflict. E) Inner conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. A poem without a normal pattern A) Prose. B) Verse. C) Irregular structure. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irregular structure. 18. Ascending means to A) Move sideways. B) Rise up. C) Move down. D) Grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rise up. 19. An object or idea that represents something else A) Symbolism. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 20. You were as brave as a lion. They fought like cats and dogs. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys are examples of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Symbol. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10Poetry Terms Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books