This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 217 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 217 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Does not contain the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Shift. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. A figure of speech wherein a part of a thing is employed to suggest the whole or a layer concept is used to suggest something specific A) Figurative language. B) Symbolism. C) Synesthesia. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synecdoche. 3. Poetry that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story. These poems are usually short and imply (as opposed to stating) a strong emotion or idea. A) Form. B) Limerick. C) Lyric Poetry. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric Poetry. 4. Antithesis A) The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas to create a feeling of balance. B) The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas to create a feeling of balance. 5. Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry A) Internal rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 6. Definition:emotions or feelings the reader feels A) Haiku. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 7. Facebook "Friends" Are Like Crayons Judy Reynolds had been looking forward to catching up with her old friends when she first signed up for a Facebook account, but she was ultimately disappointed by the experience. "Facebook friends are like crayons, " Reynolds said after deactivating her account. "They're exciting when they're new, but they can get dull very quickly." Ms. Reynolds claims to have no interest in looking at pictures of what people had for dinner, and she has better things to do than to respond to invitations to play online games. What type of figurative language is used? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 8. A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme A) Couplet. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 10. The overlapping or mixing of opposite or different situations, characters, settings, moods, or points of view in order to clarify meaning, purpose, or character, or to heighten certain moods, especially humour, horror, and suspense A) Juxtaposition. B) Tone. C) Connotations. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 11. A lyric poem that is fourteen lines long and usually has a particular type of meter A) Sonnet. B) Lyric Poem. C) Epic. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 12. What uses rhyming words at the end of two lines next to each other? A) Anaphora. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 13. A direct comparison between two unlike things A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 14. The rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Meter. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Syllable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 15. It is a poem for the dead. A) Elegy. B) Haiku. C) Song. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 16. What is the meaning of mood in poetry? A) The feeling words give you. B) The words an author uses to create a certain mood. C) Refers to various parts of poetry, such as a single line of poetry, a stanza, or the entire poem. D) A single row of words in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The feeling words give you. 17. The way you feel when you read a text A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 18. A combination of contradictory words or phrases continued in a single expression. A) Allegory. B) Mood. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 19. I am as hungry as a bear! A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. A style of Poetry that follows no rules A) Free Verse. B) Imagery. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. ← 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