This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 497 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 497 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify what type of figurative language the following sentence displays.Her eyes were diamonds in the moonlight. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. The individual parts of a poem are its ..... A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Rhymes. D) Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 3. Most monsters don't mind making messes. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 4. Language that is imaginative and goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create imagery A) Spanish. B) Haiku. C) Figurative Language. D) Interrogative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 5. Two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Dissonance. D) Ms. Johnstun's attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 6. Giving inanimate objects human qualities A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. A fourteen lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter A) Prose. B) Sonnet. C) Homonym. D) Oxymoran. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 8. How the writer feels about what he/she is writing is ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. A speaker or writer's choice of words A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 10. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A) ABBA. B) ABCC. C) AABB. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABBA. 11. A story or poem's message about life or human nature A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 12. Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 13. If you are looking at DICTION in poetry, what are you focusing on? A) Word choice. B) Word arrangement. C) Word sounds. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word choice. 14. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the author tries to create A) Tone. B) Figurative language. C) Speaker. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 15. Poem that tells a story; contains characters, conflict, plot ..... A) Tercet. B) Narrative poem. C) Structured poem. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative poem. 16. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. A) Parallelism. B) Allegory. C) Symbol. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 17. ..... is the repetition of identical sounds located at the ends of words. They can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds. A) Meter. B) Sonnet. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 18. The suggested meaning of a word or phrase. A) Diction. B) Opinion. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 19. A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung. A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Mood. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 20. Comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as" A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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