This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Roman poet most well known for his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend, Lesbia, was ..... A) Cicero. B) Plautus. C) Terence. D) Catullus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catullus. 2. Which of the following is an example of parallelism? A) She was standing and talking on her phone. B) The wounds were weeping. C) The dog laughed at the cat in the tree. D) The heart felt a million emotions at once. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was standing and talking on her phone. 3. The example highlighted below is an example of?The leaves danced in the wind. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. In Canterbury Tales, at the beginning the pilgrims meet A) At the theatre. B) At church. C) At a pub. D) In a forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At a pub. 5. A paragraph in poetry, surrounded abouve and below by skipped lines. A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Pattern of verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 6. What part of Porphyria's body is the narrator seemingly obsessed with? A) Her hair. B) Her neck. C) Her legs. D) Her hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her hair. 7. "Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard." What word has the same meaning as haughtiness is used in this stanza? A) Modesty. B) Meekness. C) Arrogance. D) Respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arrogance. 8. What idea is the speaker emphasizing? "I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore." A) A poet must be able to understand others' appreciation of poems. B) Comparing poetry to sports can help you better understand literature. C) The act of water-skiing is something usually associated with poetry. D) "They" in the poem should have fun with poetry and enjoy it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "They" in the poem should have fun with poetry and enjoy it. 9. Which of the following words means 'scared'? A) League. B) Volleyed. C) Dismayed. D) Blundered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dismayed. 10. What is a contrast or opposition between two things? A) Antithesis. B) Couplet. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 11. Regular writing A) Prose. B) Meter. C) Refrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 12. Choose the rhyming word for 'stronger' A) Way. B) Longer. C) Rest. D) Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Longer. 13. The following stanza emphasizes" The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives." A) Beauty of plants in nature. B) Dirtiness of many cities. C) Strength of the ginkgo. D) Love children have for nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strength of the ginkgo. 14. What is a verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter? A) Canto. B) End rhyme. C) Blank verse. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 15. In a poem, the narrative voice is referred to as the A) Poet. B) Narrator. C) Speaker. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 16. What is the occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. In "Introduction to Poetry" the poet uses similes and metaphors that A) Highlight the beauty of nature. B) Connect nature to ideas. C) Criticize others for ignoring beauty. D) Emphasize the importance of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connect nature to ideas. 18. Pairs of lines in a poem are called ..... A) Quintet. B) Quatrain. C) Tercet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 19. In THE QUARREL, what is the tone used by the poet in this poem? A) Ambivalent. B) Jovial. C) Unambiguous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unambiguous. 20. Lines in poetry means A) Group of words used in a complete sentence only. B) Group of words used in natural conversation. C) Group of words used whether or not a complete sentence. D) Group of words used in essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Group of words used whether or not a complete sentence. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 5Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 9Poetry Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books