This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'and tosses his guts back into his body' A) Bayonet Charge. B) Charge of the Light Brigade. C) Remains. D) War Photographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Remains. 2. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, QUESTION:What tone do these lines in the poem convey? A) Optimistic. B) Loving. C) Agitated. D) Cynical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Optimistic. 3. What did the caged bird symbolize in either of the 'Caged Bird' poems we read? A) Actual birds being held captive. B) J Cole's pain. C) People trapped by a system. D) The people who hold others down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People trapped by a system. 4. Creates a surprise ending that defies the audience's exception. (We expect one thing, but we get another). A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Ironing board. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 5. What is a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author? A) Lyric. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 6. The general council came together with Running Deer. What does council mean? A) A meeting. B) Sitting down. C) Leaving out. D) Joining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A meeting. 7. Little Ant loved to read.Little Ant was often teased. "Ants don't read. Ants must feed.Ants collect the food they need." Little Ant would read all day, he'd read and read the day away.The other ants took what they foundto store for winter underground.Which words do not rhyme in the poem? A) Feed-need. B) Away-found. C) Found-underground. D) Read-feed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Away-found. 8. Sometimes figurative language is found in poetry. What is the figurative language that is an extreme exaggeration? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. How does the final couplet in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" add to the message of the sonnet? A) It shows that he means what he says earlier in the poem. B) It explains why he described his mistress so unfavorably. C) It shows that he doesn't really think poorly of his mistress. D) It continues to describe his mistress's appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It shows that he doesn't really think poorly of his mistress. 10. The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 11. A two line stanza is a A) Tercet. B) Coupler. C) Terter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 12. 'From Jamaica she travel far' A) Storm on the Island. B) Ozymandias. C) Checking Out Me History. D) The Emigree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Checking Out Me History. 13. Which of the following is NOT criteria for a sonnet? A) 14 lines. B) Specific sound devices. C) Specific rhyme scheme. D) Specific rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Specific sound devices. 14. The moon asked the stars to dance. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. The words, sentences, or text that precedes or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage is called ..... A) Context clues. B) Passage. C) Summarize. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Context clues. 16. Which of the following best fits the definition for an ode? A) A poem written like a song to honor someone or something. B) A sad poem to honor someone who is dead or something that is lost. C) A silly poem written to make people laugh. D) An ancient form of poetry not commonly seen today. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem written like a song to honor someone or something. 17. PREMEASURED patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables: A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 18. Define meter A) The pattern of the beat. B) The pattern of the rhyme. C) Poems that share thoughts and feelings. D) Poems that tell a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of the beat. 19. Who was afraid of the cat? A) Mouse. B) Owl. C) Mongoose. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. An expression or group of words that can be confusing because they say one thing but mean another A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. ← 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