This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 94 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 94 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the three types of irony? A) Verbal, situational, and dramatic. B) Foreshadowing, symbolism, and allegory. C) Hyperbole, metaphor, and simile. D) Sarcasm, coincidence, and satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal, situational, and dramatic. 2. An overstatement or exaggeration. It is used to show emphasis and can often be found within a simile or metaphor A) Tone. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 3. The life lesson or moral A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginnings of words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 5. "The sunflower danced in the wind" is an example of A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. "whoosh, tick-tock, zoom, purr" are examples of ..... A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 7. When a writer gives hints that suggest future events in a story A) Symbol. B) Foreshadowing. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. The reason why an author writes a poem A) Point of view. B) Theme. C) Author's purpose. D) Antiquated language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's purpose. 9. Creates pictures using words-these affect us emotionally and intellectually. A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 10. "An ambitious young fellow named MattTried to parachute using his hat.Folks below looked so smallAs he started to fall, Then got bigger and bigger and SPLAT!" What kind of poem is shown above? A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Elegy. D) Epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 11. The pattern of end rhyme in poetry is called ..... A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Rhythm/meter. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 12. The use of a word that sounds like the thing or diction it describes. BUZZ-BANG-POW A) Meter. B) Prose. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Is this a pun? Fish are so smart because they live in schools? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, according to their choice of words. Often described as a "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary, A) Synaesthesia. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 15. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the reader feels, regardless of what choices the author makes A) Mood. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 16. A poem or a song narrating a story in short stanzas. A) Lyrics. B) Blank verse. C) Song. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 17. "Life is like a chicken wing" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. A line that has 10 beats and the beats have the stress pattern of unstressed/stressed ..... A) Trochaic octameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Anapestic tetrameter. D) Double dactylic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 19. "the sweet silky scent of rose petals and pollen filled the air. My garden was speckled with reds pinks, purples, and violets" is an example of A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 20. A direct comparison between two things. A) Metaphor. B) Poetry. C) Figurative Language. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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