This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'To get out of that blue crackling airHis terror's touchy dynamite.' A) Bayonet Charge. B) Charge of the Light Brigade. C) Remains. D) Exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bayonet Charge. 2. Which of these is NOT figurative language? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 3. The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Comparison and contrast. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 4. Which type of poetry glorifies a person, place, thing, or idea? A) Lyric. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode. 5. Rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry. A) End rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Rhymed verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 6. Why did King Henry VIII separate from the Catholic Church? A) Tensions were running high between England and the Pope. B) The Pope would not divorce him from his current wife. C) He didn't agree with their religious beliefs anymore. D) He wanted to create his own religious doctrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pope would not divorce him from his current wife. 7. Which of the following is an example of idiom? A) Fair is foul and foul is fair. B) The moose and the goose are loose. C) I could nap for three weeks. D) I do not have a green thumb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I do not have a green thumb. 8. Author's purpose means ..... A) The reason the author chose this title. B) The reason the author is alive. C) The reason the author loves to write. D) The reason the author wrote this piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The reason the author wrote this piece. 9. During the Renaissance, what types of literature were people rediscovering an interest in? A) Greek and Roman stories. B) Biblical tales and Greek tragedies. C) Romance and epic poems. D) Biblical stories and fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek and Roman stories. 10. The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 11. Compares two different things saying the one is the other ..... does not use like or as to compare A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. Which one of the following images is an example of a simile? A) Light/ has dropped from the top of the sky. B) Light/ like a green latticework of branches. C) Its sawing song. D) The world is / a glass overflowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light/ like a green latticework of branches. 13. The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) is the ..... A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 14. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog's bath. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. How does Spenser's "Sonnet 30" use paradox? A) By saying his poem will make his love live forever. B) By saying that he is fire and his love is ice. C) By saying that God chooses who dies, so it's meant to be. D) By saying that love makes the mind gentle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By saying that he is fire and his love is ice. 16. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?She wouldn't get her head out of the clouds A) She was very tall. B) She was loud. C) She was daydreaming. D) She had a headache. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was daydreaming. 17. Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.What comparison does Frost make to fire? A) Is it like death, because it ends everything. B) It is like hate, because it is raging and destructive. C) It is like the world, because it is everywhere. D) It is like desire, because it's a consuming element. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is like desire, because it's a consuming element. 18. A poem that tells a story and has characters, a setting, and a plot. A) Partial rhyme. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 19. Who is Fra Pandolf? A) The Duke. B) The messenger. C) The painter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The painter. 20. Which of the following is TYPICALLY present in gothic literature? A) Elements of the supernatural. B) Characters who are apathetic or don't care about much. C) Wild animals and nature. D) Big, fancy mansions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elements of the supernatural. ← 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