This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why are words or phrases repeated in poems, stories, or movies? A) To annoy. B) To make less important. C) To emphasize or make stand out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize or make stand out. 2. The following line is an example of which sound device?"Poetry is old, ancient, goes far back." A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 3. In a line of poetry, an iambic pentameter is a beat consisting of a short syllable followed by a long syllable A) Diction. B) Caesura. C) Allusion. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter. 4. What century is metaphysical poetry from? A) 15th century. B) 16th century. C) 17 century. D) They are not joined by century, but by themes and style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17 century. 5. When a word or line is written more than once within the line or stanza A) Onomatopoeia. B) Repetition. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 6. Repeating the same vowel sound anywhere within words, not just at the beginning. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 7. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? A) To describe how she agreed with the discriminatory actions. B) To become known. C) To describe how she felt about her surroundings. D) To describe what segregation was like. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To describe how she felt about her surroundings. 8. "I peeled my orange/That was so bright against/The gray of December." This line is a perfect example of A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Juxtaposition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 9. What does the O in TPCOASTT stand for? A) Overature. B) Organization. C) Occasion. D) Overpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organization. 10. What is the writing type:Poetry A) Paragraph form writing with no rhyming. B) Artistic writing with imagery, rhythm, stanzas, and sometimes rhyme. C) Play for theater, radio or television. D) A book or newspaper article. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artistic writing with imagery, rhythm, stanzas, and sometimes rhyme. 11. Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of SOUND? A) Quiet, ringing, barking. B) Moist, sharp, cold. C) Salty, sweet, bitter. D) Earthy, fruity, minty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quiet, ringing, barking. 12. What is the poem mainly about? A) It's about a lady still rising. B) It's about a lady who is falling. C) It's about a lady who is experiencing segregation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's about a lady who is experiencing segregation. 13. The example highlighted below is an example of?They bo y with the to y had so much jo y. A) Assonance. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 14. Identify the rhyme scheme ..... Roses are redViolets are blueSugar is sweetSo are you A) AAB. B) BABA. C) ABCD. D) ABCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABCB. 15. Of Homer's two epic poems, this is known as the war epic. A) The Iliad. B) The Odyssey. C) Minstrel. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Iliad. 16. Who wouldn't feel exasperated about this poem? A) African Americans. B) White. C) Caucasion. D) Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) African Americans. 17. Which of these poems is not written in first person narrative? A) Storm on the Island. B) The Prelude. C) London. D) The Charge of the Light Brigade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Charge of the Light Brigade. 18. How does the speaker in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" feel about his mistress? A) She's plain and not very pretty but he loves her anyway. B) She is as beautiful as any woman but doesn't stand up to romantic comparisons. C) She is extremely beautiful. D) She's ugly and he doesn't really like her appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is as beautiful as any woman but doesn't stand up to romantic comparisons. 19. Education in the UAE ..... and improved from the 1950s. A) Meant. B) Encouraged. C) Expanded. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expanded. 20. Why is this poem called "Introduction to Poetry" A) It's the name of the programme he started to encourage students to read poetry. B) It's a way to introduce students to all the poetry, he tells them how to analyse poems. C) It shows a new and fun way of how we look at poetry.He hoped he would change the way students look at poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It shows a new and fun way of how we look at poetry.He hoped he would change the way students look at poetry. 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