This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 267 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 267 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. Example:Wordsworth ..... "Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee" A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 2. What figurative language is used in this sentence? "Theboy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. How the reader feels when reading a poem A) Props. B) Mood. C) Dialogue. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 4. The poetry portfolio is due ..... A) Dec. 13. B) Dec. 15. C) Dec. 17. D) Dec. 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dec. 15. 5. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in nearby words: "asleep under a tree, " "time and tide, " "each evening." A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Euphony. E) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 6. Structure is ..... A) The way a poem sounds. B) A simile. C) The way a poem's words and lines are laid out on a page. D) How a poem functions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way a poem's words and lines are laid out on a page. 7. Using words that mimic or imitate the actual sound.*Ex. "Crunch!" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. Beat created by sounds of the words in a poem A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 9. Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Poetry. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 10. The pushy fish said, "Hush!" A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 11. A story told in verse, often with repeated refrain. These poems are often about folk heroes, adventures, or historical events. A) Acrostic. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 12. "His boss called him under the carpet" is an example of an ..... ? A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 13. Nomenclature is A) Repetition of vowel sounds in words. B) Repetition of alliterative word sounds. C) Patterns or rhythm created by repeated word sounds. D) A word that sounds like the sound its describing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word that sounds like the sound its describing. 14. Which sentence shows an example of personification? A) The town was damaged by the tornado. B) People hide in cellars during a tornado watch. C) The tornado angrily tore down the street as it gobbled up rooftops and yanked up trees. D) Be careful! It's windy outside!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tornado angrily tore down the street as it gobbled up rooftops and yanked up trees. 15. Poems made up of loose groupings of words and phrases are called A) Free verse. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 16. Is a pattern of rhyme. Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Near Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 17. When a poetic line moves to the next poetic line without a syntactic break, i.e., without an end-stop. A) Cesura. B) Enjambment. C) Anaphora. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 18. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. A) Elegy. B) Free Verse. C) Epic. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 19. A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. A) Petrarchan Sonnet. B) Shakespearean Sonnet. C) Spenserian Sonnet. D) Italian Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean Sonnet. 20. Which of the following refers to the literal meaning of a word? A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. ← 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