This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 357 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 357 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which choice best represents the central idea of the poem? A) It's important to hide our emotions from the world. B) It's important to know more than other people. C) Our faces do not always show our real emotions. D) Everybody wears some kind of mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our faces do not always show our real emotions. 2. Comparisons between unrelated things or ideas to reveal the familiar in surprising ways. Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, and allusion are all types of this. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 3. Which is Hyperbole A) "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women are merely players;" (From "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare). B) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. D) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. 4. Words that imitate the sound they're naming A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping, at my chamber door." Edgar Allan Poe A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 6. The repeating of vowel sounds A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 7. Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Sonnet. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 8. Repeating consonant sounds is called A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Descriptions that appeal to the five senses and create vivid word pictures A) Alliteration. B) Interpretation. C) Denotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. An author's attitude toward his or her subject. A) Metaphor. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 11. The use of words whose sound makes one think of its meaning A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Poetry. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. A group of words that are repeated several times in a poem (like the chorus of a song) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Refrain. C) Repetition. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 13. A generally recurring subject or idea noticeably evident in a literary work A) Rhyme. B) Verse. C) Cutting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 14. A Rhyme that occurs within the lines A) Internal Rhymes. B) Exact Rhymes. C) Rhythm. D) Slant Rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhymes. 15. Intentional reuse of sound, word, or phrase to emphasize an idea A) Repetition. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Rooms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. A 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme and a particular syllable pattern called iambic pentameter. Different types of sonnets have different rhyme schemes. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Stanza. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 17. Syntax A) The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. B) A humorous verse of three long and two short lines rhyming AABBA. C) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. D) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. 18. "The rain was like a little mouse" A) Synesthesia. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. In many folktales, the coyote represents evil. In this example, the coyote is an example of a ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 20. Lazy leaping lizards like licking luscious lollipops-this is an example of ..... A) Poetry. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. ← 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