This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read these lines from the fourth and fifth stanzas. And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide the ocean What is the bird most likely doing in these lines? A) Cleaning his feathers. B) Flying quietly away. C) Swimming away. D) Rowing a boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flying quietly away. 2. Which one of the following lines contains alliteration? A) Latticework of branches. B) Drifting down like clean. C) High into the empty air. D) A glass overflowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drifting down like clean. 3. Choose the rhyming word for 'say' A) Lay. B) Way. C) Both a and b. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 4. Y'all is an example of ..... A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Diction. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 5. The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. What is the sound device that means consecutive lines beginning with the same word? A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 7. What is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza? A) Metric Feet. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Iambic. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 8. "Frost cracking/Beneath my steps, my breath/Before me" contains ..... to ..... A) Hyperbole, to show exaggerated emotions. B) Simile, to compare the breathing with emotions. C) Alliteration, to stress the cold. D) Idiom, to repeat a commonly used expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration, to stress the cold. 9. Repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. What do you call an eight-line stanza? A) Couplet. B) Septet. C) Eightet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. 11. In THE HUNTSMAN, what is the tone of the poem? A) Excited. B) Suspense. C) Scared. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspense. 12. An example of direct characterization is ..... A) Erin wondered whether their parents were home, and what would happen when they found out what happened. B) He wore shabby shoes, and there were holes in his jacket. C) He said, "Dude, I've never been into that kind of music!". D) She was graceful, like a ballerina, and yet somehow, also, endearingly clumsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was graceful, like a ballerina, and yet somehow, also, endearingly clumsy. 13. Who created the term "romantic period" ? A) Romantic Poets. B) Current Novelists. C) Victorian Critics. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Victorian Critics. 14. Which sound device uses a pattern of rhyme? (Ex. ABAB) A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 15. Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Onomatopeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. Read line 4 in the poem below, what does this literally mean?1 The ostrich is a silly bird, 2 with hardly any mind.3 He often runs so very fast, 4 He leaves himself behind A) He left something behind. B) He forgot to run fast. C) He runs alone. D) He runs very very quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He runs very very quickly. 17. Which vehicle has two wheels? A) Car. B) Truck. C) Bicycle. D) Autorickshaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bicycle. 18. Which poem celebrates the source of one's beauty and confidence? A) "Phenomenal Woman". B) "El Dorado". C) "Sympathy". D) "Upon the Burning of our House". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Phenomenal Woman". 19. Where the audience knows more than the characters. We know more than the characters do with creates humor or suspense. A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) "Iron't" I funny?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 20. This line most relates to which element of Romanticism?"Beside the lake, beneath the trees, " A) Youth/innocence. B) Spirituality/supernatural. C) Nature. D) Rejecting tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. ← 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