This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 445 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 445 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word "juxtapose" mean? A) To decorate with figurative language. B) To move in a way that is vehemently aggressive. C) To place side by side or arrange in sequence. D) To prefer to stand whether to take a seat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To place side by side or arrange in sequence. 2. Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. A) Personification. B) Consonance. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 3. What is dramatic monologue? A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. C) Consists of three lines-line #1= 5 syllables; line #2 7 syllables; line #3 5 syllables. D) Poetry set to music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. 4. "Her eyes were like diamonds glistening in the moonlight."This is an example of what poetic term? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. "The clock stood up and walked off the wall" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. How do you identify tone in a poem? A) "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme. B) Listen to the beat. C) Find out what the poet wore when they wrote the poem. D) Have a glass of milk and listen to the poem blindfolded. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme. 7. Heroic couplet A) A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Often words at the end of lines at first seem like they will rhyme but are not pronounced in perfect rhyme. B) Verse containing seven metrical feet. C) Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. D) A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. 8. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. All Knowing! When the Narrator can tell the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters. A) Third Person Point of View. B) Third Person Limited Point of View. C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. D) Third Person Objective Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. 9. Poems that express personal emotions or feelings are called ..... A) Free verse poems. B) Lyrical poems. C) Narrative poems. D) Humorous poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical poems. 10. Two opposite words placed side by side A) Oxymoron. B) Personsification. C) Simile. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 11. Repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the word. A) Cadence. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Prosody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 12. The author's attitude toward writing A) Tone. B) Limerick. C) Rhyme. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 13. Today is very boring, it's a very boring day, there is nothing much to look at, there is nothing much to say. There's a peacock on my sneakers, there's a penguin on my head, there's a dormouse on my doorstep; I am going back to bed. A) Bored. B) Tired. C) Fanciful. D) Exciting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bored. 14. Use of words that imitate sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. What is Ms. Cattell's favorite animal at the moment? Hint:Jack likes this animal too even though he denies it. A) Dogs/Puppies. B) Cats/Kittens. C) Horses/foals. D) Zebras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cats/Kittens. 16. Anything that is not poetry is called A) Essay. B) Lyrics. C) Prose. D) Academia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 17. Literal or dictionary definition of a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 18. When human qualities are given to nonhuman things. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. Three meters A) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. B) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. C) 3 beats per measure. D) 3 feet per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3 feet per line. 20. Using humans qualities to describe nonhuman things. A) Poem. B) Figurative Language. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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