This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 253 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 253 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Songlike poetry that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) Epic poetry. D) Concrete poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 2. What rhymes in this stanza?Nothin' to sayWhen everything gets in the waySeems you cannot be replacedAnd I'm the one who will stay, oh-oh-oh A) Nothin/cannot. B) Seems/who. C) Gets/will. D) Say/way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Say/way. 3. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. A) Poetry. B) Genre. C) Narrative. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genre. 4. A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker A) Lyric poem. B) Narrative poem. C) Juxtaposition. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem. 5. Jumbo shrimp is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 6. The main building block of a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose writing. A) Quartet. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 7. Language that cannot be taken literally A) Sound Devices. B) Figurative Language. C) Shift. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 8. The use of words to imitate sounds; the words used, when pronounced, sound like the sound they describe. Ex:Bang, zoom, buzz A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. Giving human traits to non-human things A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 10. The voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer's feelings or situation A) Speaker. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 11. What is an end rhyme? A) A word that rhymes with the poet's last name. B) A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line. 12. Which of the following sentences contains a simile? A) Her shirt was as colorful as a rainbow. B) Blake is a cheetah when he runs. C) The firework blasted in the sky with a large "bang"!. D) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her shirt was as colorful as a rainbow. 13. What is the central message or idea of a poem called? A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 14. The "narrator" of the poem A) Meter. B) Speaker. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 15. The appearance of the words on the page A) Line. B) Form. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 16. A comparison in which the poet writes about one thing as if it is something else:A = B, with the qualities of B transferred to A A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Central idea of a work of literature A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Theme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 18. Which of the following details led you to choose the line you identified in question 9? 1 I wandered lonely as a cloud 2 That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 3 When all at once I saw a crowd, 4 A host, of golden daffodils; 5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. A) The poet compares two unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing. B) The poet describes a nonhuman subject as having human characteristics. C) The poet compares two unlike things using the word like or as. D) The poet uses one thing to represent something other than itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet compares two unlike things using the word like or as. 19. Alliteration is defined as ..... A) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words in a row. B) The repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of multiple words. C) A comparison using "like" or "as". D) Descriptive words using the five senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words in a row. 20. A comparison between 2 or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unlike A) Extended metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. ← 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