This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 214 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 214 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity. A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 2. The lesson or moral of the story or poem that relates to life. A) Theme. B) Subject. C) Tone. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 3. Tanya never stops talking. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 4. The process of marking meter is ..... A) Scansion. B) The actual worst. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Uses the alphabet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scansion. 5. The runner is a cheetah. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. What is the definition of the term:Symbol? A) A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. B) Anything that stands for something else. In addition to having its own meaning and reality, also represents abstract ideas. C) A combination of words, or parts of words, that contradict each other (deafening silence). D) Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; it implies a comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anything that stands for something else. In addition to having its own meaning and reality, also represents abstract ideas. 7. Repeating initial consonant sounds A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. What is "a 17-syllable, delicate unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature" ? A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 9. The literary term for a poem ostensibly about farming and the practical aspects of rustic life is A) Interlude. B) Georgic. C) Alexandrine. D) Prelude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Georgic. 10. "Blazing in gold and quenching in purple, " A) Metaphor. B) Consonance. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 11. A way to divide sections of lines in a poem. Similar to a paragraph in prose. A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Stanza. D) Slice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, or repetition. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Voice. 13. Making a non-human object have human qualities is called ..... For example:The river tripped and skipped over the rocks on its way to the ocean. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Syllable. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. "My lips are dumb" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. What is the extended metaphor? A) Smiling. B) The world. C) Clay. D) The mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mask. 17. This is like a paragraph for a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 18. What is the usual rhyme scheme used in Dickinson's poerty? A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABAC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 19. Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Elegy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 20. Authoritative works of a writer & an accepted list of works perceived to represent cultural, ideological, historical etc. grouping A) Trope. B) Archetype. C) Canon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canon. ← 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