This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 430 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 430 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The writer's attitude towards his/her subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Style. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 2. Logical sections of ideas, like paragraphs of an essay A) Lines. B) Stanzas. C) Structure. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. 3. Two lines of rhyming poetry A) Couplet. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Poetry. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 4. The person in the poem who is speaking A) Audience. B) Poet. C) Speaker. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 5. Language that is not intended to be taken literally A) Written language. B) English language. C) Cursive. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 6. Rhyme that occurs within single of poetry. A) Ode. B) Internal rhyme. C) Theme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 7. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of words A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Verse. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. Ordered pattern of rhymes A) Literal language. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Meter. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 9. What is the tone of the following text? "I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you run away and hide, you coward!" A) Pleased. B) Suspicious. C) Happy. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angry. 10. Amanda anaconda ate an amazing apple air-fried ashcake. A) A. B) Alliteration. C) Letters. D) Apple pie is better. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. A writer's attitude toward what they are writing about A) Tone. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 12. Read the following stanza and decide which two poetic devices the author uses. "I am Super Sampson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong. I like to carry elephants, I do it all day long. I pick up half a dozen and hoist them in the air. It's really somewhat simple, for I have strength to spare." A) Simile, onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration, hyperbole. C) Metaphor, personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration, hyperbole. 13. Languagethat appeals to the senses. A) Alliteration. B) Stanza. C) Imagery. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 14. A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. It often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time. A) Enjambment. B) Hyperbole. C) Haiku. D) Iambic pentameter:. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 15. Replacing a word or idea with a different word that is closely related. A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Motif. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 16. Comparison of two things unlike not using like or as. A) Smile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. The front desk was my chocolate notebook and I was not letting it go away. No way.This means: A) Mia is hungry for chocolate. B) Mia doesn't want to give up her front desk responsibilities. C) The front desk had a notebook that was precious to Mia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mia doesn't want to give up her front desk responsibilities. 18. Which of the following is composed of five three-line tercets and a final four-line quatrain? A) Villanelles. B) Sestina. C) Sonnet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Villanelles. 19. "like" or "as" comparison A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. What is the best definition of an idiom? A) A phrase where the meaning should not be taken literally. B) A phrase that exaggerates the emotions. C) A phrase that compares two objects using like or as. D) A phrase that shows what the author is thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A phrase where the meaning should not be taken literally. ← 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