This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 289 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 289 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "A woman ..... can do no good but in childbirth. But a woman can do evil. She can do evil." ~~ MEDEA A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 2. Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash" backward and tell what happened at an earlier time A) Epithet. B) Flashback. C) Homeric simile. D) Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 3. Giving human qualities and traits to non-human object is ..... A) Figuratively Speaking. B) Personification. C) Poetry. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. The piano sang a mournful song. A) Personification. B) NOT Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Pairs of rhyming words get labeled with the same letter of the alphabet. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 6. A concrete poem is written in ..... A) Short lines. B) The shape of its topic. C) Many stanzas. D) Rhyming lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shape of its topic. 7. A poem written in honor of someone who had died A) Elegy. B) Imagery. C) Ballad. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 8. Lines of poetry arranged in groups A) Form. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 9. How a say a word (stressed and unstressed). Is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Meter. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 10. A question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Meter. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 11. The poet is A) The person who writes the poem. B) The person who reads the poem. C) The person in the poem. D) I'm not sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The person who writes the poem. 12. This term means the representation through language of sense experience A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 13. "Less is more" is an example of what poetic device? A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 14. The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 15. "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. A type of figurative language that shows an object or animal acting like a human. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. A very long narrative poem that tells of a hero's deeds A) Sonnet. B) Free verse poem. C) Epic. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 18. A writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. This is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Inference. C) Suspense. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 19. Long, Narrative Poem that tells a story of a hero or historical figure or event. A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Dramatic Monologue. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 20. Two lines of poetry that rhyme (AA) A) Ode. B) Couplet. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. ← 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