This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A simile and metaphor BOTH A) Answer a question. B) Always rhyme. C) Have pictures. D) Make a comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Make a comparison. 2. The imagery of the breath-"beneath my steps, my breath/ before me" and "Until we were breathing/Before a drugstore" stresses A) The girl's hunger. B) The speaker's nervousness. C) The speaker's poor health. D) The coldness of the day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The coldness of the day. 3. Which type of Figurative Language is it that the words mimic the sounds? (Ex. BOOM) A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. When you have the same ending sound in words, you would say the words: A) Rhyme. B) Descriptive. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 5. What is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse? A) Ballad. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 6. A character or set of characters who can be compared and contrasted in a work to heighten plot and theme development: A) Juxtaposition/s. B) Foil/s. C) Analogy/s. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foil/s. 7. In Holy Sonnet 10, the speaker personifies A) Death. B) Love. C) Poison. D) Fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death. 8. Which poet that we read was name Poet Laureate by President Clinton? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Langston Hughes. C) Maya Angelou. D) Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maya Angelou. 9. A group of consecutive lines that forms a structural unit in a poem A) Parallelism. B) Imagery. C) Stanza. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 10. What is a line of verse with five metrical feet? (unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) A) Spondaic. B) Iambic. C) Trochaic. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic. 11. "Oranges" is a narrative poem because A) It tells a story. B) It conveys the speaker's feelings. C) It uses free verse instead of rhymed patterns. D) It describes a time and a place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It tells a story. 12. Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem. A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Shift. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 13. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement of sound A) Stanza. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 14. What does the narrator think Porphyria wants? A) To give herself to him forever. B) A one night stand. C) Some peace and quiet. D) To be murdered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To give herself to him forever. 15. Stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound A) Sound devices. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound devices. 16. A very short poem that contains 3 lines with 17 total syllables; originated in Japan and is usually about nature. A) Elegy. B) Free verse. C) Haiku. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 17. Define evidence A) Facts, information, observable from the story. B) Guesses about a story's theme. C) Conclusion gathered by what the author says and what I already know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts, information, observable from the story. 18. Epics usually include A) Gods. B) Heroes. C) Supernatural incidents. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 19. What is the correct rhyme scheme of a sonnet? A) GG, EFEF, CDCD, ABAB. B) There is no particular rhyme scheme. C) ABAB, CDCD. D) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG. 20. Descriptions about the setting and characters is frequently found in A) Poems. B) Plays. C) Prose. D) All three. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plays. ← 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