This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 365 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 365 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What poetic sound device is used in this sentence? She fell flat on her face. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. Overtones, suggestions, implications, and additional meanings of the word A) Denotation. B) Feelings, emotions, thoughts. C) Connotation. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 3. What figurative language is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression? A) Idiom. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Hyperbola. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 4. Definition:a four-line verse or poem that rhymes A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Concrete Poem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 5. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis for humorous effect. A) Hyperbole. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. Repetition of consonants in a line-not at the beginning A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 7. A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Formal verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 8. The beat of a poem, created by the poet's deliberate choice of words made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 9. 'I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time'Is an example of ..... A) Life. B) Cutting. C) Couplet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 10. How many actual days of vacation do we get at Thanksgiving? A) 7. B) 8. C) 9. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 11. A word that describes a sound A) Hyperbole. B) Exaggeration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 12. Direct address to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (someone or something dead, imaginary, abstract, or inanimate). A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allegory. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 13. Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans A) Personality traits. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. The difference between mood and tone is ..... A) Tone is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and mood is the author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. B) Mood is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and tone is author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and tone is author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. 15. Tom talked to Teddy today. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. A writer's choice of words; choosing words with precise denotations and connotations A) Diction. B) Rhetoric. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 17. Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses A) Figurative language. B) Literal language. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 18. Which type of writing is written in paragraphs? A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 19. The syllables for a haiku follow the pattern A) 7, 5, 8. B) 5, 7, 5. C) 7, 5, 7. D) 4, 6, 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5, 7, 5. 20. What type of figurative language is the following? "When I pray the sun won't devour your northbound steps." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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