This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 375 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 375 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The direct meaning of a word, the dictionary definition A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Palindrome. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 2. Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came! A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 3. A writer or speaker's attitude toward a subject A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Tone. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 4. A reference to a statement, person, place or event from the past. A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 5. This poem contains many examples of:The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe "Oh, the bells, bells, bells!What a tale their terror tellsOf Despair!How they clang, and clash, and roar!What a horror they outpourOn the bosom of the palpitating air!Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows;Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. Repetition of words at the ends of consecutive lines or phrases A) Epistrophe. B) Apostrophe. C) Preposition. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 7. Sound and feel created by patterned syllables A) Inverted syntax. B) Slant rhyme. C) Imagery. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 8. Repetition in a poem refers to repeated ..... A) Rhyme. B) Vowels. C) Consonants. D) Words or phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words or phrases. 9. A comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping verbs A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Which element of poetry is highlighted in this quote? "The leaves crunched under my feet as I walked through the woods." A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. Rhyme occurs within a single verse A) End rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 12. A dove is a ..... of peace. A) Symbol. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 13. "Ten more steps. Eight. Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession. Only four more steps. Three. There it was now, very close to us, the pit and its flames" (31) What is the mood of this passage? A) Joyful. B) Optimistic. C) Angry. D) Gloomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gloomy. 14. A common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. What is the feeling displayed by the author toward the subject of the poem? A) Mood. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 16. There are two basic elements to form in poetry: ..... and ..... A) Line and rhythm. B) Stanza and enjambment. C) Imagery and line. D) Line and stanza. E) Imagery and rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line and stanza. 17. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"and"I have a million things to do today"Are examples of which type of figurative language A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words A) Free verse. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 19. When determining the rhyme scheme of a poem or song, we generally use ..... to indicate the rhyme scheme. A) Rhymes. B) Letters. C) Numbers. D) Roman Numerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Letters. 20. The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:"I would walk a million miles to be at your side" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. ← 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