This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the poetic element when a poem gives a nonhuman thing human traits A) Alliteration. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Animalification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. Where a character says the opposite of what they mean. A) Verbal Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Flat iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 3. During the Middle Ages, who were books and stories primarily written for and read by? A) Nobles. B) Kings. C) The clergy. D) Common people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nobles. 4. A poem that does not have any rhyme A) Narrative. B) Concrete. C) Haiku. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 5. The mouse was afraid of ..... A) Cat. B) Mongoose. C) Owl. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. What word, derived from Greek, is used to describe writing, like Vergil's in the Georgics, whose purpose is to teach the reader? A) Dogmatic. B) Didactic. C) Dactylic. D) Despotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Didactic. 7. What is an intermission for? A) To break up lines in a poem. B) To give the audience a break during a play to stretch and get snacks. C) A type of genre for a book. D) The first line that a character speaks in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To give the audience a break during a play to stretch and get snacks. 8. Repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 9. Moving from observations about particular things to generalizations. A) Argumentation. B) Induction. C) Deduction. D) Classification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Induction. 10. The new idea paraded around in the girl's mind; she was unable to stop thinking about it. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, " the speaker A) Tries to persuade a young maiden to be his love. B) Promises material things for a fee. C) Shows how deeply he loves someone. D) Has only his sheep to love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tries to persuade a young maiden to be his love. 12. The example highlighted below is an example of?Her hair is a shimmering waterfall. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 13. The following line conveys which sound device?"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary" A) A rhyme scheme. B) An internal rhyme. C) An end rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An internal rhyme. 14. The Swing-Robert Louis StevensonHow do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside-Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown-Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!How does the author feel about swinging? Use details from the text to answer this question. A) He thinks it makes you fly. B) He thinks it is silly. C) He thinks it is only for children. D) He thinks it is pleasant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He thinks it is pleasant. 15. Uncle Eric:She is quite a pitcher, isn't she? A) Cast of Characters. B) Dialogue. C) Description. D) Stage Direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 16. Exaggeration or an overstatement A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. What is a juxtaposition? A) A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. B) An exaggeration so dramatic that no one would believe its true. C) A statement that is a comparison of two things that are not alike. D) When a set of words uses the same sound or letters repeatedly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. 18. When the bus came, I got on, carrying my pink backpack. It was the first day of school, and I was nervous. I smiled, though, when I saw my best friend Kevin sitting in the back. What type of point of view is the paragraph above? A) 1st person point of view because the narrator is part of the story and it uses I. B) Second person point of view because it uses YOU. C) 3rd person omniscient because the narrator knows everything about everyone. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person point of view because the narrator is part of the story and it uses I. 19. What is the speaker's tone in "The Nymph's Reply to the Sheperd?" A) She skeptical that the shepherd's love will last. B) She is bitter about the fickle nature of humans. C) She isn't afraid of Death. D) She is excited to spend time with the Shepherd, while his love lasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She skeptical that the shepherd's love will last. 20. What was NOT a typical genre of Anglo-Saxon literature? A) War song. B) Heroic poem. C) Chronicle. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Novel. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 5Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 8Poetry Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books