This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose? A) Speaker. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 2. A word that sounds like the noise it describes A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so" A) Juxtaposition. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 4. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem, written as letters.EX:ABAB CDCD A) Narrative. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Partial rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 5. Describes something non-human with human qualities A) Internal Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. What is it called when an object, animal or inanimate object is portrayed as having human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Humanization. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. In THE INCHCAPE ROCK, What makes Ralph the Rover regrets his action of stealing the bell? A) All of his belongings were robbed by the Abbot. B) His boatmen left him alone in the ship. C) His ship sank because of the absence of the bell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His ship sank because of the absence of the bell. 8. What did a Roman patrician consider his best pursuit? A) Trade. B) Government. C) Literature. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agriculture. 9. Who wrote 'Exposure'? A) Simon Armitage. B) Wilfred Owen. C) Carol Ann Duffy. D) Beatrice Garland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wilfred Owen. 10. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definition. A) Connotation. B) Meter. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 11. What do we call t he main message an author hopes to convey? A) Topic. B) Focus. C) Theme. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 12. To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics? A) Bees. B) Birds. C) Cats. D) Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bees. 13. A group of words whose meaning is different from the actual (ordinary) meaning of the word is an ..... (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs." A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 14. Read the stanza from the poem.'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI rise I rise. "Why does she repeat "I rise?" A) To emphasize. B) To understate. C) To depreciate. D) To forget. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To emphasize. 15. The example highlighted below is an example of?The black birddog boldly began to bark. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. The second stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Blue. B) Indigo. C) Violet. D) Orange. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indigo. 17. 'The lone and level sands stretch far away' A) Ozymandias. B) London. C) Extract from, The Prelude. D) Exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ozymandias. 18. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass;" A) Rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. What does the P in TPFASTT stand for? A) Paragraph. B) Paraphrase. C) Prominent. D) Petty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paraphrase. 20. Which writer said, "The free bird thinks of another breeze." A) Maya Angelou. B) Shakespeare. C) J Cole. D) Mr. Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maya Angelou. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 5Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 8Poetry Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books