This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 302 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 302 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. A) Verse. B) Theme. C) Mood. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 2. What sound device is in line 2?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!" A) Rhythm. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. What is the rhyme scheme? Roses are red Violets are blue I am Ted So are you A) ABC. B) AABB. C) Father. D) AAAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 4. One row of words in a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 5. How many lines are there in a sonnet? A) 4. B) 8. C) 12. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 6. Which is a Simile A) "Talked my head offWorked my tail offCried my eyes out"(Shel Silverstein). B) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. D) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. 7. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds A) Internal rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 8. What is the definition of personification in poetry? A) Attributing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. B) Creating a metaphor by comparing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. C) Describing human emotions through non-human objects or abstract ideas. D) Using non-human objects or abstract ideas to represent human qualities. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attributing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. 9. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter A) Blank verse. B) Falling meter. C) Free verse. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 10. What is the purpose of personification in poetry? A) To create a musical effect. B) To describe a word that sounds like the sound it is describing. C) To compare two unrelated things. D) To give human qualities to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To give human qualities to non-human things. 11. Which vocabulary word is being defined? The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 12. What is the definition of connotation? A) The dictionary definition of a word. B) The opposite of denotation. C) The sound of a word when spoken. D) All associated or implied meaninsg of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All associated or implied meaninsg of a word. 13. When the expected outcome is different than the actual outcome or appearance is not reality, is the definition of ..... A) Paradox. B) Accident. C) Coincidence. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 14. The bug splatted on my windshield.Is this an example of A) Metaphor?. B) Rhyme?. C) Onomatopoeia?. D) Alliteration?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia?. 15. The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people A) Assonance. B) Diction. C) Dialect. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialect. 16. Which is the best definition for the word reveal? A) To slowly tell or show. B) To rhyme. C) To go on a picnic. D) To show emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To slowly tell or show. 17. Contrasting words are juxtaposed in order to encompass contrary impressions or ideas. A) Oxymoron. B) Synecdoche. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 18. "It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ..... ; A) Annabelle. B) Annabel Lee. C) Annabelle Lee. D) Annabel Leigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annabel Lee. 19. Which term has the following definition:a comic verse of irregular measure A) Elegy. B) Chanson de geste. C) Haiku. D) Doggerel. E) Epithalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doggerel. 20. A phrase, line or stanza that is repeated throughout a poem, often after a stanza. A) White space. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) None of above. 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