This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 325 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 325 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does alliteration mean? Some examples of alliteration is:friendly face; hurt horse; cool cat; slithering snakes A) The repetition of similar vowel sounds at the beginning of words. B) The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of words. C) The repetition of similar vowel sounds at the end of words. D) The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words. 2. The central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action A) Protagonist. B) Tragic flaw. C) Antagonist. D) The setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 3. The sad student sat silently in the room. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Using words or phrases that could have more than one meaning. A) Idiom. B) Ballad. C) Central Idea. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 5. A lyric poem that addresses a particular subject and is written in varied or irregular meter. A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Meter. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 6. What is the sound and meaning of words that are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas? A) Poetry. B) Informational Writing. C) Argumentative Writing. D) Narrative Writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 7. A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. Repetition of beginning sounds is called ..... A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 9. Which term means:a Japanese verse form of 5 lines with 5 or 7 syllables A) Rondeau. B) Tanka. C) Prose poem. D) Sonnet. E) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tanka. 10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. The cupcake called my name. Is this an example of A) Personification?. B) Onomatopoeia?. C) Simile?. D) Rhyme?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification?. 12. A poem that has five lines and a total of 22 syllables, distributed in a specific 2-4-6-8-2 pattern. A) Cinquain. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinquain. 13. Which sentence is the best example of sensory details? A) I like chocolate. B) Chocolate is made from roasted, ground cacao seeds. C) Chocolate is delicious and I love to eat it. D) The chocolate melted on my tongue as I placed the heart shaped candy into my mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The chocolate melted on my tongue as I placed the heart shaped candy into my mouth. 14. Repeated sounds at the end of words (pool, rule, fuel). A) Free verse. B) Rhyme(s). C) Meter. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme(s). 15. A central message of insight expressed in a literary work The word is ..... A) Imagery. B) Theme. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 16. Long, lyric poems that were written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode. 17. Which is a pun? A) I'm quite a big fan of dry erase boards, they're quite re-markable. B) I like planes, thyey fligh high and fast. C) I don't prefer cold ham, i like it warm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm quite a big fan of dry erase boards, they're quite re-markable. 18. Ling was chewing the gum. When her teacher told her to spit it out and throw it in the trash, she talked back. What tone did Ling use with her teacher? A) Apologetic. B) Sarcastic. C) Disrespectful. D) Uncertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disrespectful. 19. What is the mood of the following poem:In the morning, very early, That's the time I love to goBarefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear;And I am glad in every toe-Such a summer morning-O! Such a summer morning! A) Sad. B) Negative. C) Happy and Hopeful. D) Confused. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Happy and Hopeful. 20. What type of figurative language is shown? I have a million chores to do tonight! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. 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