This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 84 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are words or sentences spoken by a character in a poem, play, or story? A) Dialogue. B) Excerpt. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 2. The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Personification. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 3. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. An example from "The Sound of Music." When the dog bites, (Boom Boom, BOOOM Boom) When the bee stings, (Boom Boom BOOOM Boom) A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 4. "The picture was as colorful as a rainbow" is which type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Which is an example of Metaphor? A) This tree is the god of the forest. B) This tree is like the god of the forest. C) The tree spread its gigantic, sun-flecked shoulders. D) The tree felt smooth as sandstone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This tree is the god of the forest. 6. The lesson or message of a literary work is called ..... A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 7. Words that are spoken A) Lyric. B) Speech. C) Dialogue. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 8. Apostrophe A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. C) Repetition of accented vowel sounds in a sentence ex) he cried a sigh of high denial. D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. 9. An example of a prose is ..... A) "Sahar and the Tiger Cub". B) "I Survived Hurricane Katrina". C) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". D) "Snail at Moonrise". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Sahar and the Tiger Cub". 10. ..... the main idea, central idea, subject, topic, or meaning of a story or poem. A) Theme. B) Central Idea. C) Topic Sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 11. A reference in a text to something literary, historical, or religious (that the reader should have previous knowledge of) outside of the text. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Accented. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 12. A ..... is a single row of words in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 13. The regular pattern of sounds in a poem or beats in a piece of music A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 14. Defined by lack of structure A) Limerick. B) Rhythm. C) Free Verse. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 15. The repetition of final sounds in two or more words A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. A haiku is known for being a poem with ..... lined poem. A) 14 lines. B) 2 lines. C) 3 lines. D) 5 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3 lines. 17. Simile or Metaphor? My big brother is a couch potato. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 19. The author's attitude toward the subject or topic of his or her writing. A) Juxtaposition. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) External conflict. E) Inner conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem A) Stanza. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. ← 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