This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is this?"My city takes me dancing" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. How does the narrator describe the effects of loving Porphyria on him? A) He has become pale. B) He has become obsessed. C) His blood has become thin. D) He has lost interest in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has become pale. 3. The R iver r uns r apidly is what type of poetry term? A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) End Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 4. Who fell down and hurt his knee in the poem "A Good Play" ? A) Jerry. B) Tom. C) Sam. D) Rio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom. 5. This stanza helps readers imagine the trees by appealing to "The willow's music is like a soprano, Delicate and thin. The ginkgo's tune is like a chorus, With everyone joining in." A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Sound. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound. 6. What feature of "A Bird Came Down the Walk" tells the reader that it is a poem? A) It tells a story. B) It is about nature. C) It is written in stanzas. D) It has a bird as a character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is written in stanzas. 7. Which type of figurative language is represented in the following line:"Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. Which of these poets that we've read wrote during the Harlem Renaissance? A) Maya Angelou. B) Langston Hughes. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Anne Bradstreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Langston Hughes. 9. Life is a roller coaster. Is an example of .. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Choose the correct element. Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 11. What is the repetition of consonant sounds? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 12. The third stripe of the rainbow is ..... A) Orange. B) Red. C) Green. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blue. 13. Comparing things using like or as A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Diction. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Sequence of related events in a story A) Climax. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 15. Metaphysical poetry is not A) Complex. B) Intellectual. C) Simple. D) Logical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 16. A reference to an important/popular thing. A) Allusion. B) Caesura. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. The boy told an absurd joke to the class. What does absurd mean? A) Intellectual. B) Silly. C) Meaningful. D) Formal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silly. 18. When did Ovid die? A) 70 BCE. B) 5 CE. C) 17 CE. D) 44 BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17 CE. 19. An extended metaphor that contrasts two dissimilar things: A) Conceit. B) Conceive. C) Centro. D) Cello. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 20. "The lady's eyes met mine, /And held them, knowing/Very well what it was all/About." This line would indicate A) That she had enough chocolate and could afford to give it away. B) That she evidently felt empathy for the boy, and his situation. C) Her disappointment that the boy did not have enough money. D) That she knew it was cold outside, and both the boy and the girl were happy to be warm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That she evidently felt empathy for the boy, and his situation. ← 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