This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word list has examples of assonance? A) Blue, super, suet. B) Boy, bear, barn. C) How, fly, sand. D) Blue, red, violet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue, super, suet. 2. The flowers danced in the gentle breeze. A) Parody. B) Free verse. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. What is a prop in a play? A) A secret that the actors don't tell the director. B) The words that characters say in a play. C) A stand to hold something. D) The items that characters use in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The items that characters use in a play. 4. Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is the effect of the allusion to the Garden of Eden*? A) It creates imagery of a beautiful garden to help improve the poem. B) It creates a juxtaposition between the paradise of Eden and Nature. C) It changes the mood because Eden's paradise is now closed to humans. D) It doesn't affect the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It changes the mood because Eden's paradise is now closed to humans. 5. Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most of the characters are doing, thinking, or feeling? A) 1st person. B) 3rd person limited. C) 3rd person omniscient. D) 2nd person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person omniscient. 6. Jason and Daniel are looking forward to the upcoming basketball season. Last year, their team had a lot of great players, but defense was their Achilles' heel. What does the phrase "Achilles heel" allude to? A) The story of Achilles whose heel was magical. B) The myth of Achilles whose heel was the only part of him that was mortal. A shot to the heel was the only way to kill Achilles. It was his weakness. C) The myth where Achilles overcame twelve labors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The myth of Achilles whose heel was the only part of him that was mortal. A shot to the heel was the only way to kill Achilles. It was his weakness. 7. Repetition of a VOWEL sound in non-rhyming words used close to one another A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 8. What is this?"bandage up me eye with me own history" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. Which author wrote The Lamb? A) William Blake. B) William Wordsworth. C) Robert Burns. D) Samuel Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Blake. 10. Read the following lines from the third and fourth stanzas of the poem. He stirred his velvet head-Like one in danger; cautious What does the word "stirred" mean as used in these lines? A) Quickly moved. B) Held still. C) Mixed. D) Slowly nodded. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quickly moved. 11. Central idea or universal statement of a work of literature A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Narrative. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 12. An overused expression A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cliche. 13. An Italian sonnet has.. A) 3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet. B) 1 Octave, 2 Couplets. C) 1 Octave, 1 Sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 Octave, 1 Sestet. 14. What can animals represent in poetry? A) The poet's pet. B) The reader's pet. C) Christian icons. D) Speaking animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christian icons. 15. ..... is a form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, sound, or structure to express something in an artistic way. A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 16. What is the below example known as?Example:'I saw the man walking fora long time and he didn't stopfor many years.' A) Enjambment. B) Figurative language. C) Allusion. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 17. If this were a line in a poem, what would it mean?My father is a bear in the morning. A) My father is hairy. B) My father is grumpy in the morning. C) My father is big. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My father is grumpy in the morning. 18. A poem that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about a single image, emotion, or idea A) Concrete. B) Narrative. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 19. Narrator of the poem A) Poet. B) Stanza. C) Quatrain. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 20. A metaphysical conceit is A) A comparison of two like things. B) An extended metaphor comparing two very unlike things. C) A logical proposal given in a poem. D) A cross between a simile and a standard metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An extended metaphor comparing two very unlike things. ← 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