This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 449 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 449 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device is this?"Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughedTo see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." A) Metaphor. B) Symbol. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words called? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. Trochee or trochaic A) Unstressed stressed. B) Stressed unstressed. C) Unstressed unstressed stressed. D) Stressed unstressed unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stressed unstressed. 4. Giving human qualities to objects or animals A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. A literary term in which one representative part stands for the whole. A) Allusion. B) Synecdoche. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 6. What are words or phrases repeated throughout the poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhythm. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. The ..... of a poem is the speaker's attitude towards the subject they are talking about while the ..... of a poem is the emotions created within the reader who is reading the poem. A) Tone, mood. B) Mood, tone. C) Motif, theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone, mood. 8. Another word for conflict in a poem ..... A) Tension. B) I am conflicted. C) Setting. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tension. 9. The continuation of a thought from one line to the next in poetry. A) Allusion. B) Internal rhyme. C) Enjambment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 10. Human qualities attributed to an object, animal or idea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. Approximate Rhyme A) Occurs when end words of lines sound alike but are not identical. B) When a rhyme occurs within a single line. C) Occurs when ends of lines share the same sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occurs when end words of lines sound alike but are not identical. 12. What word is defined as "the dictionary definition of a word" ? A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Allusion. D) Literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 13. A row of texts within a poem A) Line or Verse. B) Verse. C) Line. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. What is the meaning of the word WOOED from line 10 of the poem? A) Complimented. B) Tried to get their attention. C) Sought the love of. D) Angered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sought the love of. 15. Free Verse is: A) A song by Lynyrd Skynyrd/. B) Poetry does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme. C) The pattern of rhyming sounds. D) A regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that give poetry a beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme. 16. The coolness of nightRefreshes my skinThe stars shine so bright.Causing me to grin. What is the rhyme scheme? A) ABBA. B) AABB. C) ABAC. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father. 17. Language that is literal. A) Meter. B) Literal language. C) Extended metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal language. 18. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words Creates musical effect A) Alliteration. B) Analogy. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. Four-line unit in a poem A) Quatrain. B) Sestet. C) Couplet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 20. "Open Form" is also called ..... A) Free Verse. B) Closed Form. C) Limerick. D) Frank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. ← 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