This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 241 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 241 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A break or punctuation used to emphasize meaning. Usually this is the period or comma at the end of a line A) Cesura. B) Allusion. C) Verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 2. The person who is understood to be speaking (or thinking or writing) a particular work. A) Metaphor. B) Similarly. C) Persona. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona. 3. Which two types of figurative langauge is represented in line 4 of the poem?How much will you pay for an extra dayThe clockman asked the child.Not one penny. the answer cameFor my days are as many as smiles. A) Simile/metaphor. B) Simile/hyperbole. C) Metaphorhyperbole. D) Personificationhyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile/hyperbole. 4. Literal meaning of a word A) Connotation. B) Figurative language. C) Denotation. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 5. The repetition of the BEGINNING sound. A) Rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. "Enthusiastic, gloomy, optimistic, cheerful, sarcastic, humorous, indignant, illuminating, admiring" are all examples of: A) Tone. B) Rhymes. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 7. A prose poem is distinguished by what structural quality? A) Justified margins. B) Double spacing. C) Paragraph symbols. D) Completely set in quotation marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Justified margins. 8. Epigraph A) A brief ending no more than 4 lines long. B) A small book of about 24-50 pages. C) Close repetition of vowel sounds. D) A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section. 9. A close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Villanelle. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 10. Which of the following compares two things using like or as? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Theme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. The theme of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes is A) Hard Work Pays Off. B) The "American Dream" isn't everyone's reality. C) Bad Food Spoils over time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "American Dream" isn't everyone's reality. 12. The voice in the poem A) Tone. B) Them. C) Speaker. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 13. The repetition of the same vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words A) Rhythm. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 14. Words within the same line of poetry rhyme. A) Near/half/impure rhyme. B) Eye rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) True rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 15. What is a poem written in a beat that uses 10 syllables in each line that are alrenately stressed? A) Creek. B) Meter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 16. What is a sentence that continues over several lines of poetry? A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) End-stop. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 17. Written in sentences and paragraphs, just like fiction or nonfiction. While prose poems don't have line breaks, you can still see their poetic quality through techniques like repetition, figurative language and imagery A) Metaphors. B) Verses. C) Prose poem. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose poem. 18. What is a group of words in a row; may be based on meter or rhyme? A) Line Break. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 19. The narrator is a character in the literary work and refers to themselves using "I" or "me." Since the narrator participates directly in the action, their point of view is limited. The word is ..... A) Imagery. B) Omniscient third-person. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First-person point of view. 20. When a human quality, emotion, or ambition is given to a non-human object or being A) Allegory. B) Apostrophe. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Anagrams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropomorphism. ← 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