This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A Petrarchan sonnets rhyme scheme is A) Abab/cdcd/efef/gg. B) Syllabic in pattern. C) Abba/abba/cde/cde. D) 14 lines only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abba/abba/cde/cde. 2. Lord Indra called his carpenter because ..... A) His bow was broken. B) He wanted new furniture. C) He wanted a new chair. D) His wooden table was broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His bow was broken. 3. In the poem, 'Fireflies in the Garden', What does the poet compare fireflies to in this poem? A) Stars. B) Planets. C) Comets. D) Planes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stars. 4. Repetition of the same CONSONANT two or more times in short succession. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 5. What genre is Vergil's Aeneid? A) Epic poetry. B) Lyric poetry. C) Tragedy. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poetry. 6. Repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 7. The pattern of repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A) Meter. B) Refrain. C) Rhythm. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 8. A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself (literal/concrete meaning) and for something beyond itself (figurative/abstract meaning); often visual, reappear throughout a text, and are associated with figurative language A) Theme. B) Flashback. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 9. Which literary term describes the events of the story? A) Plot. B) Climax. C) Conflict. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 10. 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 is Frost thinking about in this poem? A) Love. B) Desire. C) Hate. D) The end of the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The end of the world. 11. A group of lines in a poem similar to a paragraph in prose A) Lines. B) Chorus. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end or a line, couplet, or stanza ..... A) Apostrophe. B) Enjambment. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 13. A rose represents love, winter represents death, red represents passion, etc. A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Allegory. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 14. Repeating the same consonant anywhere within words, not just at the beginning. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 15. BUZZ is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 16. What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Similar. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. What is the first thing Porphyria does when she enters? A) She lights a fire. B) She takes off her hat and gloves. C) She sits next to the narrator. D) She dries her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She lights a fire. 18. This is a group of words written in sentences and paragraphs, like you would read in a novel or essay. A) Poetry. B) Essay. C) Prose. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 19. A three line stanza is a A) Terter. B) Terlet. C) Tercet. D) Terttrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tercet. 20. I cried, why? Why my life? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. ← 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