This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 447 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 447 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Given human characteristics or traits to non-human things. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. A comparison giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving object. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 4. "as light as a feather"What figurative language type would this be? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. Repeated line or lines in a poem or song. A) Connotation. B) Alliteration. C) Dialect. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 6. Kevin's shades were drawn. The room was dark and he liked it that way. After the day he had, darkness was a welcomed friend. He felt like sunshine was so far away. The writer is creating a- A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Mood. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 7. Lines grouped together like a paragraph in a poem A) Line. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 8. Which type of poetry does not adhere to a specific rhyme scheme or meter? A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 9. A musical quality of a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 10. A ..... is a comparison that DOES NOT use the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 11. Long narrative usually about a hero's deeds. A) Epic. B) Ballad. C) Rime. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 12. A word that mimics an actual sound A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 13. Metaphor, simile, and personification are all examples of ..... A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 14. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject. A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Allusion. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 15. I wandered lonely as a cloud A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. A long narrative poem about medieval culture and secret love. A) Romance. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romance. 17. How many lines per stanza does tercet A) 6. B) 9. C) 7. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 18. What is this stanza's rhyme scheme?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!" A) AABB. B) ABCB. C) Father. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AABB. 19. What gives nonhuman things human characteristics? Example:The waves dance along the shore. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. A figure of speech that combines two words that contradict each other A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. ← 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