This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 465 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 465 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To emphasize means to ..... A) Show that something is important. B) Write a poem. C) Tell a story. D) Play a game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Show that something is important. 2. A long narrative poem that usually tells about the deeds of a hero A) Epic. B) Epitaph. C) Lyrical. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 3. Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's Wold by Edna St Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!Thy mists that roll and rise!" A) Accent. B) Apostrophe. C) Anapest. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 4. Lines or words that have the same ending sound A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 5. An implied comparison between two things without like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. "I'm as chill as a polar bear" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. In the sentence, "When the cat stalks his prey, he is a shadow, " what two things are being compared? A) The cat and its prey. B) The cat and its shadow. C) The cat and a shadow. D) The prey and its shadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cat and a shadow. 8. Which of these would be considered a poem? A) A paragraph from a novel. B) Song lyrics. C) A conversation between two people. D) Any sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Song lyrics. 9. Words or phrases that use description to create pictures or images in the reader's mind. (5 senses). A) Cacophony. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. What is the rhyme scheme for this stanza?A short while later, through the wood, Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood, The wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze, And yellowish, like mayonnaise. A) Father. B) ABCD. C) AABB. D) AABC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AABB. 11. Happens at the end of linesex. Now you know how this poem will endShe's a true friend A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 12. I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. Morning It always comes The bright sun blinds my eyes I get ready to go to school good day this is a ..... A) Diamante. B) Cinquain. C) Free verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinquain. 14. When the last words in two lines of poetry end the same A) Simile. B) Speaker. C) Free verse. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 15. Language that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Symbolism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. The beat, the way the poem flows when you read it A) Rhythm. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 17. What type of rhyme is the following example?"Ah! as the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colder. A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 18. An obvious exaggeration or overstatement for special effect imagery A) Hyperbole. B) Denotation. C) Archetype. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 19. Which figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. Used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion, and set the mood for the work. A) Parallel Structure. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. ← 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