This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 108 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 108 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two different things without the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Choose the correct figurative language Snow White's hair is black like charcoal. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. A struggle within a story. It can be between the protagonist and antagonist, between the protagonist and his society, or the protagonist and nature A) Juxtaposition. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) External conflict. E) Inner conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) External conflict. 4. What a word suggests beyond what it expresses. The feeling associated with the word. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 5. Pentameter A) Stanza of 5 lines. B) Line consisting of 5 metrical feet. C) Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry. D) Line consisting of 6 metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line consisting of 5 metrical feet. 6. A songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings A) Lyric. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 7. Capitalization, line length, and word choice is an example of which type of literary element? A) Simile. B) Graphical elements. C) Hyperbole. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graphical elements. 8. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckleAt every step you missedMy right ear scraped a buckle The italicized words are examples of words that represent: A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 9. What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised? A) Style. B) Substance. C) Suspense. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 10. The best kinds of people stand up tall, No matter how hard they fall. The best kinds of people are honest and true. The best kind of person, my dear, is you.What technique do you notice here? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 11. Poems that do not rhyme but consist of iambic pentameter A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Narrative Poem. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 12. What is the topic of a free verse poem? A) Silly. B) Tells a Story. C) Nature. D) Anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anything. 13. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem A) Prose. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Connotation. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 14. ..... occurs when words at the end of lines rhyme with each other. A) Internal rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 15. Dramatic change in thought and/or emotion A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Shift. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift. 16. Poems that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker A) Mock epic. B) Lyric. C) Free verse. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 17. "The stars danced in the night sky" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. What is the point of view in a poem? A) A piece of writing with figurative language and repeated rhythm. B) The writings of a poet. C) The perspective from which a poem is written. D) A word that has the same sound as another word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The perspective from which a poem is written. 19. During World War II Sweden was Neutral or ..... on which side they were on. A) Literal. B) Judge. C) In the middle. D) Suggested. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the middle. 20. May feature colloquial language-local idioms and slang expressions A) Informal tone. B) Formal tone. C) Lyric. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informal tone. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books