This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 329 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 329 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Guilt poked and chewed at me for telling the lie. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 2. 'Places of calm' contains repeated broad vowel sounds, an effect that is called: A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 3. Easily recognized or obvious A) Elusive. B) Blatant. C) Tangible. D) Autonomous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blatant. 4. The pattern of rhymes A) Stanza. B) Theme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 5. Meter means A) A poem's rhythmic structure. B) Repeated sounds in two or more words. C) The overall structure of a poem. D) A single line of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem's rhythmic structure. 6. The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 7. What is the definition of the term:Connotation? A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. B) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work; often suggested by descriptive details and relates directly to tone. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. 8. Similes compare two things using the words A) And, or. B) Like, as. C) Me, you. D) It, we. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like, as. 9. Using the words "like" or "as" or another connective word to compare one thing to another in a creative and indirect way is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. What is the definition of a denotation? A) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. B) The negative attributes associated with a word or phrase. C) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The negative attributes associated with a word or phrase. 11. When two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Allusion. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 12. "I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #4 Why does the author include line 4 in the poem? A) To show how a broken heart can make us smile. B) To show how much a torn and bleeding heart can hurt. C) To show how a broken heart doesn't really hurt. D) To show how our emotions can act as a mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To show how our emotions can act as a mask. 14. A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem; stanzas can have the same or different of these A) Repetition. B) Speaker. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 15. The first letters in a line/verse spell a word if you read vertically A) Acrostic. B) Epic. C) Diamante. D) Haiku. E) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrostic. 16. A stressed syllable followed two unstressed syllables, like "beautiful" A) Trochee. B) Spondee. C) Dactyl. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dactyl. 17. Exchange of spoken words between two or more characters in a book, play, or other written work A) Script. B) Drama. C) Dialogue. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 18. The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 19. Words that sound a like A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 20. What is the repetition of vowel sounds? A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. ← 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