This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 321 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 321 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning A) Figurative Language. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 2. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text is A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 3. Who is well known for using Iambic Pentameter? A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) F. Scott Fitzgerald. C) M. Night Shyamalan. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 4. A form of poetry that is written in a shape A) Concrete. B) Narrative. C) Haiku. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete. 5. A poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg A) Petrarchan Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) English Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English Sonnet. 6. Which lines of a Limerick poem are longer? A) Lines 1, 2, & 5. B) Lines 3, 4, & 5. C) Lines 1, 3, & 5. D) Lines 2, 3, & 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lines 1, 2, & 5. 7. A writer's choice of specific words for a deliberate effect A) Diction. B) Rhyme. C) Limerick. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 8. Which term means a reference to a piece of art or history that is real beyond the poem? A) Allusion. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 9. Repeating the same words or phrase in close proximity for effect. A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 10. Our new house cost a bazillion dollars. This is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. One bite of the sour lemon caused my lips to pucker. Which sense does this describe? A) Taste. B) Sight. C) Smell. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taste. 12. Archaic language is ..... A) A modern language. B) Words and phrases that convey a meaning beyond their literal meaning. C) A new language that will be spoken in the future. D) Words that were once commonly used in the past but are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words that were once commonly used in the past but are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date. 13. Writing that uses sensory words (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch) help form a picture in the reader's head ..... this is known as: A) Immoral. B) Impossible. C) Imagination. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. A monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage. Soliloquies allow dramatists to communicate information about a character's state of mind, hopes, and intentions directly to an audience. A) Sestet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 15. Repetition of the same consonant sound in a series of words, usually at the beginning of the words A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure A) Free verse. B) Ode. C) Haiku. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 17. Is is the way people in a certain region speak that is unique to that region. A) Dialogue. B) Dialect. C) Slang. D) Accent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 18. What is an allusion in poetry? A) A comparison between two unlike ideas. B) The dictionary definition of a word. C) Reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or art. D) Ideas or meanings associated with a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or art. 19. Which term means the way a reader feels about the poem? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 20. The author takes a single metaphor and employs it at length, using various subjects, images, ideas and situations. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Personification. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended 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