This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 365 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 365 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time'Is an example of ..... A) Life. B) Cutting. C) Couplet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 2. How many actual days of vacation do we get at Thanksgiving? A) 7. B) 8. C) 9. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 3. A word that describes a sound A) Hyperbole. B) Exaggeration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. Direct address to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (someone or something dead, imaginary, abstract, or inanimate). A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allegory. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 5. Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans A) Personality traits. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. The difference between mood and tone is ..... A) Tone is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and mood is the author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. B) Mood is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and tone is author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood is what the reader feels after reading the poem, and tone is author's attitude or feeling about the subject they're writing about. 7. Tom talked to Teddy today. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. A writer's choice of words; choosing words with precise denotations and connotations A) Diction. B) Rhetoric. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 9. Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses A) Figurative language. B) Literal language. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 10. Which type of writing is written in paragraphs? A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 11. The syllables for a haiku follow the pattern A) 7, 5, 8. B) 5, 7, 5. C) 7, 5, 7. D) 4, 6, 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5, 7, 5. 12. What type of figurative language is the following? "When I pray the sun won't devour your northbound steps." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. It is the use of rhyming words at the end of two or more lines of poetry. A) Limerick. B) Internal rhyme. C) Haiku. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 14. McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ..... connotation. A) Positive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 15. A literary form that combines the precise meanings of words with their emotional associations. When you read poetry, consider the poem's voice, structure, and sound. A) Poetry. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 16. What is a comparison of two things. Does NOT use like or as. Ex:She was a robot at work. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. A term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause. A) Free Verse. B) Imagery. C) Enjambment. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 18. A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming a-b-a-b. Ballads may use refrains. Examples: "Jackaroe, " "The Long Black Veil" A) Assonance. B) Ballad. C) Blank verse. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 19. When the opposite of what you expect happens. For example:A mechanic whose car is falling apart A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 20. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. ← 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