This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 285 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 285 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Bake a big cake with lots of butter and bring it to the birthday bash. Is this alliteration or hyperbole? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. What's the meaning of this metaphor? "After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area." A) Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground. B) Lots of caution tape was used to block off sections. C) Reporters were everywhere trying to catch a story. D) After the game, a tornado hit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground. 3. When two words end in the same sound, this is known as what? A) Rhyming words. B) Stanza. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming words. 4. Language that represents one thing it terms of another A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Language. C) Satire. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 5. Emily Dickinson was a recluse. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 7. The gut feeling you get when you hear a word A) Connotation. B) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 8. "This man, this barking dog, this gulled fool" ~~ MEDEA A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Zeugma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 9. Define Anaphora A) Compare two unlike things using "like" or "as". B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. C) Compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as". D) A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. 10. The pattern created by placing rhyming words in specific places A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhyme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 11. A person, place, or object that stands for a larger idea A) Imagery. B) Symbol. C) Figurative language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 12. A set or group of lines in a poem A) Stanza. B) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 13. Poetry free from consistency in rhyme, meter, or line length A) Fixed verse. B) Open form. C) Concrete poetry. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Open form. 14. Rhymes at the ends of lines A) Triplet. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) End rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhymes. 15. A group of verses in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 16. The comparison of two unlike things that share something in common without using the words "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. "I have a ton of chores to do" is an example of a A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. What is descriptive language that appeals to the five senses? A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 19. The author's attitude toward the subject matter A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 20. A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. A) Sestet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean sonnet. ← 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