This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 317 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 317 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Literal definition A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Analyze. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 2. The following is an example of which sound device?ABAB CDCD EFEF GG A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 3. What term describes when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else? A) Sensory Language. B) Figurative Language. C) Alliteration. D) Poetic Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 4. Writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Repetition. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 5. What word refers to words whose sounds suggest their meaning? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas. A) Poetry. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. Poem in praise of a person, object, or event. Modern versions of this poem have multiple stanzas with 10 lines each, typically consisting of three to five stanzas. They use the rhyme scheme ABAB-CDECDE in each stanza. A) Expression. B) Villanelle. C) Ode. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 8. A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject ..... A) Shift. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shift. 9. "We may not save the plain cake for later." This is an example of: A) Rhyme scheme. B) Scansion. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 10. 'Their love outshone even that of Romeo and Juliets' is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) MLA Citation. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 11. One of the divisions of a poem, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines (kind of like a paragraph in prose) A) Rhythm. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 12. Did you know that not all deserts arehot? Both hot and cold deserts are verydry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have longwinters when the temperatures can reach belowfreezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal ofsnow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts. A) Compare and contrast. B) Problem and solution. C) Description. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare and contrast. 13. What is Lyric A) Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in a highly musical verse. B) To give human qualities to something that is not human. C) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in a highly musical verse. 14. A short poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a? A) A long poem. B) Hike. C) Nature. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 15. What is a comparison using the words like or as? A) Simile. B) Figurative Language. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Author uses words that appeal to senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste) A) Form. B) Imagery. C) Figurative language. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. What is a group of lines in a poem called ("paragraph")? A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. Message or universal understanding that the poem explores A) Poem. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 19. "Muggles" belong in which book/movie series? A) Twilight. B) Harry Potter. C) Hunger Games. D) The Incredibles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harry Potter. 20. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is an example of what? A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Syntax. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. ← 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