This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 376 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 376 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A dove is a ..... of peace. A) Symbol. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 2. "Ten more steps. Eight. Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession. Only four more steps. Three. There it was now, very close to us, the pit and its flames" (31) What is the mood of this passage? A) Joyful. B) Optimistic. C) Angry. D) Gloomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gloomy. 3. A common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. What is the feeling displayed by the author toward the subject of the poem? A) Mood. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 5. There are two basic elements to form in poetry: ..... and ..... A) Line and rhythm. B) Stanza and enjambment. C) Imagery and line. D) Line and stanza. E) Imagery and rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line and stanza. 6. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"and"I have a million things to do today"Are examples of which type of figurative language A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words A) Free verse. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 8. When determining the rhyme scheme of a poem or song, we generally use ..... to indicate the rhyme scheme. A) Rhymes. B) Letters. C) Numbers. D) Roman Numerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Letters. 9. The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:"I would walk a million miles to be at your side" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. A message about life A) Repetition. B) Theme. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 11. A lyric poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter following one of several possible rhyme schemes. The 2 main types are Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean) A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Ode. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 12. What is the key importance of a stanza? A) Stanzas are there just to make the poem look nice. B) If there are many stanzas, it means the poem is very well written and descriptive. C) When you move from one stanza to another, you're going from one idea to another. D) There is no key importance of a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When you move from one stanza to another, you're going from one idea to another. 13. When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what? A) Plagiarizing. B) Writing. C) Cheating. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paraphrasing. 14. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song and is usually labeled with letters of the alphabet. A) Internal rhyme. B) Complete rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 15. Simile or Metaphor:Life is a flower that grows more beautiful every day. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. The feeling or atmosphere of a poem or work of literature. A) Irony. B) Figurative language. C) Mood. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 17. The "end rhymes" of poems; the poem follows a specific rhyming of words at the end of each line shown by capital letters A) Metaphor. B) Antonym. C) Pattern. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pattern. 18. This example of personification also includes descriptive words that use the five senses, which is known as ..... The thunder clapped loudly, shaking the house A) A simile. B) Imagery. C) A metaphor. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. The message, or lesson the writer wants us to learn is called A) Detail. B) Main idea. C) Theme. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 20. Sarah can run like a gazelle through the park.This is an example of- A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. ← 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