This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 335 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 335 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "All the world is a stage" is an example of a A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. ..... is the attitude the writer or the speaker takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. A) Mood. B) Rhythm. C) Tone. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 3. An allusion is when an author refers to A) Historical events. B) The Bible. C) Shakespeare. D) Any of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any of these. 4. The use of words that imitate the sounds they represent, adding auditory effects to a poem and helping to create a sensory experience for the reader A) Stanza. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 5. The use of words that imitate sounds. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. What is an acrostic poem? A) A poem that uses each letter of a word to begin each line of the poem. B) A poem that an author writes about him or herself. C) A poem that is about two opposite things that resembles a diamond. D) A poem that has the words form the image that it's describing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem that uses each letter of a word to begin each line of the poem. 7. You are my sunshine. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Pattern. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. Describe one thing as if it were something else (does NOT use like or as) A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Symbol. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. When an object with its own value represents a larger concept or idea A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 12. A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables. The poem is three lines long. Line 1 is 5 syllables, line 2 is 7 syllables, and line 3 is 5 syllables. This type of poem does NOT rhyme. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 13. What is the definition of a tone? A) How the reader feels. B) The poet's attitude about the poem's topic or subject. C) The positive attributes associated with a word or prhase. D) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poet's attitude about the poem's topic or subject. 14. The voice that narrates a poem A) Stanza. B) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 15. Author varies word order for meaning and effect. A) Word order. B) Voice or POV. C) Repetition. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word order. 16. "There's a smell of damp hay, / of horses ..... " is imagery appealing to which of the five senses? A) Visual. B) Auditory. C) Tactile. D) Olfactory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olfactory. 17. The tone and mood of a text can be very different A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. A piece of writing that conveys a message through language and often relates to culture, art, nature, or life. Poetry emphasizes language's musical qualities. A) Speaker. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poem. 19. Words that end with the same sounds A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 20. Words have the same ending sound. A) Alliteration. B) Assanance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. ← 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