This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 339 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 339 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A cultural or historical reference or quotation that authors assume their readers will recognize. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 2. This has a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 3. Denotation literal meaning A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. A pair of rhyming lines in a poem. Shakespeare ends all his sonnets with one. A) Cutting. B) Cacophony. C) Couplet. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 5. The attitude of the speaker in a poem (how the speaker feels). A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Prose. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. The comparison of two unlike things that doe not use like or as. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. ..... involves giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. Division of poetry names for the number of lines it contains A) Group. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 9. 1st Person Point of View A) Key words:I, me, we, our. B) Key words:you, your. C) Key words:He, she, they, their. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Key words:I, me, we, our. 10. Which does not belong? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paragraph. 11. When a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 12. Stressed syllables are A) Only occuring in odes. B) Syllables that show character emotions. C) Syllables with a longer or higher pitch (that are emphasized). D) Syllables outside the rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syllables with a longer or higher pitch (that are emphasized). 13. Like a paragraph but in poem A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Story. D) Line Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature A) Motif. B) Imagery. C) Juxtaposition. D) Hubris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 16. When words in the same line of a poem have both consonance and assonance (similar sounds). A) Internal Rhyme. B) External Rhyme. C) Homophones. D) Metaphors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhyme. 17. What is tone in writing? A) The reader's attitude toward the subject. B) The author's attitude toward the subject. C) The reader's feelings about the subject. D) The sound that comes from a piano when you press a key. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author's attitude toward the subject. 18. Words that make a sound (pop, crack, whoosh, hiss) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 19. "When Carly eats spaghetti, sauce slurping and smacking around her mouth. She scrapes the toast against her plate, crunching, grinding every mouthful." is an example of which sound device? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. A grouping of lines in a poem (like a paragraph). Often each stanza is the same length and follows the same pattern of meter or rhyme. A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Enjambment. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. ← 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