This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 481 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 481 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes A) Paradox. B) Parallelism. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. The ..... of a poem is revealed and supported by all of the other elements. A) Imagery. B) Theme. C) Speaker. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 3. Silly Sally sells shells by the seashore is an example of ..... A) Anagram. B) Alliteration. C) Apostrophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. The use of the same sound to start several words in a row is called A) Alliteration. B) Internal rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. Dramatic monologue A) A long, poetic speech in theater and in plays that is spoken by one character in front of other characters. B) A monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage. C) A fourteen line poem in rhyming iambic pentameter with an octave that sets up a problem and the sestet that gives the answer, with the last two lines of rhyming couplet as the solution. D) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose;. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A long, poetic speech in theater and in plays that is spoken by one character in front of other characters. 6. What vocabulary word means:Important, Famous A) Boisterous. B) Idiom. C) Collaborate. D) Prominent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prominent. 7. What is the setting in poetry? A) A phrase that means something different from what is literally said. B) An important part of any story or poem because it explains where and when the events take place. C) Is a poetic device that is used at the end of a line, and the beginning of the next line in a poem. D) A feeling created by the poet for the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An important part of any story or poem because it explains where and when the events take place. 8. A small part of a larger work. For example, one chapter of a novel or one paragraph of an article. A) Quatrain. B) Excerpt. C) Content. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excerpt. 9. What is this sentence an example of: "The wind howled during the thunderstorm" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. A pair of lines, usually written in the same form A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Elegy. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 11. The feelings created in the reader by the poem; can be affected by the tone A) Symbol. B) Line. C) Mood. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 12. What is the definition of a hyperbole? A) A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as". B) A unit of language created to divide a poem. C) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An extreme exaggeration. 13. Japanese nature poem, three lines in length; 17 syllables, 5-7-5 A) Sonnet. B) Stanza. C) Haiku. D) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 14. The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) are the ..... A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 15. What is:a repeated phrase appearing word for word? A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 16. A pair of lines next to each other than rhyme are called a rhyming ..... A) Doublet. B) Pair. C) Couplet. D) Duo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 17. The repetition of the first consonant sound in words A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. Refers to the voice that speaks the poem and is NOT usually the actual author of the poem; also known as a PERSONA (Latin for mask) A) Imagery. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 19. What is plagiarism? A) The use of another's original words or ideas. B) Borrowing from a source without giving credit. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 20. Masculine rime A) When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't. B) A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. C) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. D) A rhyme of final stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rhyme of final stressed syllables. ← 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