This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Expressing meaning using language that signifies the opposite is known as: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Verbal Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal Irony. 2. ..... is the technique of giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.Example:The wind sang through the trees. A) Mood. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. Words that sound like their meanings are called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphors. C) Similes. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds is A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 5. Expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings; highly musical A) Mood. B) Lyrical poetry. C) Denotation. D) First person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical poetry. 6. A moment of sudden insight or revelation A) Diction. B) End-Stopped. C) Epiphany. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epiphany. 7. Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. This is a group of lines in a poem. The lines are separated by space. A) Paragraph. B) Phrase. C) Stanza. D) Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 9. What is the definition of stanza? A) A group of words that forms a unit or chunk of poetry. B) A four line stanza. C) The mixed order of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of words that forms a unit or chunk of poetry. 10. The dictionary definition of a word A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 11. End rhyme A) A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. B) A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. C) Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry. 12. "My head was a burning bush after we finished jogging" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. A line is the same thing as a sentence A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Mrs. Robinson expects Cassie and my presentation to be good, but we have been working on it every night for the last week, so we are really going to knock her socks off. A) Cassie and the speaker are not prepared to give a good presentation. B) Cassie and the speaker intend on hitting Mrs. Robinson rather than presenting. C) Cassie and the speaker's presentation will far exceed Mrs. Robinson's expectations. D) Cassie and the speaker's presentation will meet Mrs. Robinson's expectations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cassie and the speaker's presentation will far exceed Mrs. Robinson's expectations. 15. The voice that talks to the reader in a poem; similar to the narrator of a story; not necessarily the author A) Stanza. B) Repetition. C) Speaker. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 16. Fourteen line poem with a fixed form(Rhyme Scheme). Shakespearean (English/Elizabethan) A) Villanelle. B) Sonnet. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 17. Extreme exaggeration A) Litotes. B) Metonymy. C) Hyperbole. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. The attitude the poem's narrator has toward the subject A) Theme. B) Symbol. C) Tone. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 19. A NARRATOR'S attitudes or beliefs about an event, person, or place based on their own personal experiences. A) Point of view. B) Narrator. C) Tone. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perspective. 20. The giving of human qualities to ideas, animals, or objects is called A) Assonance. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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