This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 242 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 242 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An instruction written into the script of a play, indicating actions, movements of performers, or production requirements A) Stage directions. B) Dialogue. C) Scene. D) Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage directions. 2. "Why are math books sad? Because they have so many problems." is an example of: A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 3. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a completely new hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 4. A couplet can best be defined as ..... A) Two consecutive lines that rhyme. B) Repeated vowel sounds. C) Poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a meter. D) Continuing a sentence/idea after the line breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two consecutive lines that rhyme. 5. Is a word that imitates a sound, like "clang" or "sizzle." A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. Figures of speech or vivid descriptions used to produce mental images by appealing to the five senses A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. What type of poem must have exactly 4 lines? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Narrative. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 8. Which term is this the definition for:Repetition is an important poetic technique. It is when writers reuse words, phrases, images, or structures multiple times within a poem. A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. What is an example of hyperbole? A) The door went BAM when it was shut. B) I have a MILLION THINGS to do. C) She is as fast as a shark. D) My uncle cried when he sat on the chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I have a MILLION THINGS to do. 10. Which is an example of a hyperbole? A) The trees danced in the breeze. B) He was sneaky as a fox!. C) My brother eats like a horse. D) I caught a fish the size of our house!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I caught a fish the size of our house!. 11. Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker A) Lyrical poem. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical poem. 12. Words that sound like what they are meant to representEx:Moo, Buzz, Bang A) Rhyme. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Valediction A) A farewell speech. B) A greeting. C) A eulogy. D) A salutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A farewell speech. 14. The vantage point from which a story/poem is told. A) Point of View. B) Rhythm. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of View. 15. Figurative Language:Choose the simile. A) The sky is low, the clouds are mean. B) Down in their cabins, the sailors are sheep. C) The stormy seas as dark as coal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stormy seas as dark as coal. 16. Sound words:words, when pronounced, imitate the sound being made A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Paraphrase. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. Several verses or lines of a poem that are grouped together to describe an image, idea, or event A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 18. What is the definition of a line? A) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. B) A unit of language created to divide a poem. C) A word that sounds like how it is said. D) To put in your own words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A unit of language created to divide a poem. 19. What is the definition of the term:Diction? A) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. B) The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader; created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. 20. What is NOT an example of a symbol: A) Chains. B) White dove. C) Full moon. D) Soup. 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