This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 328 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 328 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Connotations A) The emotional associations created by a word that goes beyond the dictionary meaning. B) The actual dictionary definition of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The emotional associations created by a word that goes beyond the dictionary meaning. 2. When a poem repeats sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines, he or she is using A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. Longer and tells a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot A) Free Verse. B) Narrative. C) Blank Verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 4. The "feel" of a word A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 5. A reference to a literary work, history, person, or place A) Alliteration. B) Apostrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 6. The use of words that imitate sounds (crash, bang, hiss, splat) A) Lyric. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 7. English sonnet A) A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. B) A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads have unknown authors because it gets passed down from generation to generation. Most song ballads typically slow down and provide a calmness. C) A rhyme of final stressed syllables. D) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. 8. A person, place, thing, or event that stands for something greater than itself. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Symbol. D) Stanza. E) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 9. The lack of any regular rhythm or meter in a poem A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Rhythm. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 10. Is like the chapters in a book, they contain multiple scenes A) Comedy. B) Monologue. C) Act. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act. 11. The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called ..... A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Naming. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naming. 12. Guilt poked and chewed at me for telling the lie. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. 'Places of calm' contains repeated broad vowel sounds, an effect that is called: A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 14. Easily recognized or obvious A) Elusive. B) Blatant. C) Tangible. D) Autonomous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blatant. 15. The pattern of rhymes A) Stanza. B) Theme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 16. Meter means A) A poem's rhythmic structure. B) Repeated sounds in two or more words. C) The overall structure of a poem. D) A single line of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem's rhythmic structure. 17. The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 18. What is the definition of the term:Connotation? A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. B) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work; often suggested by descriptive details and relates directly to tone. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. 19. Similes compare two things using the words A) And, or. B) Like, as. C) Me, you. D) It, we. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like, as. 20. Using the words "like" or "as" or another connective word to compare one thing to another in a creative and indirect way is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Hyperbole. 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