This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This poem is characterized by a list of items A) Dramatic monologue. B) Catalogue. C) Assonance. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catalogue. 2. The specific, literal image, idea, concept, or object that a word or phrase refers to A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Diction. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 3. Which sentence is ambiguous? A) When the detective asks if the goods are stolen, the honest reply. B) When the detective asks if the goods are stolen, honest people reply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the detective asks if the goods are stolen, the honest reply. 4. The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 5. A pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter. A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Parallelism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 6. Villanelles A) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). B) Also known as word choice. C) A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme. D) A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. 7. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 8. The single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word A) Stanza. B) Syllable. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syllable. 9. (He is a shining star) A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. What is literal language? A) Words that are used to create an image or suggest an idea. B) Words that are used to mean exactly what they say. C) A poetic device in which a phrase, word or sound is repeated. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that are used to mean exactly what they say. 11. Lines in a poem that the poet has chosen to group together, usually separated from other lines by a space. A) Paragraph. B) Scansion. C) Stanza. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. An extreme exaggeration that is not to be taken literally A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. A stanza with two lines A) Quatrain. B) Sestet. C) Couplet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 15. What is the definition of quatrain? A) A four line stanza. B) The main idea. C) A figure of speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A four line stanza. 16. "paragraphs" in poetry; a collection of lines A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 17. Connotation is? A) How the word feels. B) The word's favorite food. C) The length of the word. D) The implied meaning of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The implied meaning of a word. 18. An art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is primarily planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama A) Drama. B) Theatre. C) Script. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theatre. 19. Define METAPHOR- A) Repeating beginning sounds. B) A figure of speech. C) Sound words. D) Comparing without "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparing without "like" or "as". 20. Danny's room is a pig-sty. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. ← 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