This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 459 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 459 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What vocabulary word means:To fit in with the needs of, provide space for A) Ambition. B) Accommodate. C) Boisterous. D) Collaborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accommodate. 2. A phrase that compares two things as if one thing IS or WAS the other thing is a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Creates images in the mind of the reader uses figurative metaphorical language to improve the readers experience.Often appeals to our senses:touch, sight, smell, taste, hear A) IMAGERY. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) RHYME. D) PUN. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IMAGERY. 4. Under the sea swim fishesUnder the sea lurk sharksUnder the sea speed starfishThis is an example of A) Metonymy. B) End-stopped. C) Chiasmus. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 5. Blankness or emptiness within a poem A) White space. B) Indentation. C) Line length. D) Line breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White space. 6. Extreme exaggeration used for effect rather than for literal interpretation A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Blank Verse. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. Words that sound like the natural noises they make A) Mood. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. "If you are a dreamER, a wishER, a liAR, A hope-ER, a pray-ER, a magic bean buyERIf you're a pretendER, come sit by my fiRE"is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 9. "The steak was tougher than an anvil." A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Mood. D) Author's tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. A poem that has three lines and a total of 17 syllables, distributed in a specific 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Cinquain. C) Sonnet. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 11. Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 12. If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman?If I'm alive and well, will you be there and holding my hand?is an example of ..... A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 13. The voice talking to us in the poem is not always the voice of the poet him/herself ..... we call this voice the ..... A) Point of view. B) Eyes. C) Narrator. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 14. Voice in the poem; the person or thing that is speaking A) Speaker. B) Refrain. C) Lyric poem. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 15. A narrative poem of popular origin is sometimes called a: A) Elegy. B) Lyric. C) Haiku. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 16. Let's try this again! A simile can be defined as ..... A) A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." Ex:My grandpa is as old as dirt. My girlfriend is like a beautiful flower. B) When words have the same or similar sounds. C) Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses; often creates an image or idea in the reader's mind. D) When an object or action means something more than its literal meaning. Ex:A flag represents patriotism. A dove symbolizes peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." Ex:My grandpa is as old as dirt. My girlfriend is like a beautiful flower. 17. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in language A) Irony. B) Assonance. C) Lyric. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 18. Repetition is when a writer repeats words or phrases in order to ..... a point. A) Emphasize. B) Take away from. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasize. 19. Cataloging A) Repetition of people, things, or attributes. B) Recording one's thoughts. C) Creating a code in a poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of people, things, or attributes. 20. A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writers; style A) Cliche. B) Parody. C) Satire. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parody. ← 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