This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 381 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 381 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas A) Paraphrase. B) Quote. C) Plagiarism. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plagiarism. 2. What type of sound device is used?The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. A long, wandering journey A) Invocation. B) Odyssey. C) Muse. D) Iliad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odyssey. 4. Which connotation is most NEGATIVE (-)? We bought ..... souvenirs at the Lagoon amusement park. A) Cheap. B) Inexpensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheap. 5. What is the syllable pattern? A) 3-3-3. B) 7-5-7. C) 4-3-8. D) 5-7-5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5-7-5. 6. What does stanza mean? A) A division or section of a poem named for the quantity of lines it contains. B) A pattern of rhyme in a poemLetters are used to identify the rhyme scheme. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A division or section of a poem named for the quantity of lines it contains. 7. Organized patters of rhyming words in poetry. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme pattern. 8. Identify the figurative language that is used in the following sentence.The sky was dark and gloomy, and the air was damp and raw. A) Simile. B) Consonance. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 9. "He grew as tall as a skyscraper once he hit sophomore year." is an example of A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 10. Feminine ending A) Verse of iambic hexameter (a verse of six feet, each of which has the stress on the second beat), found in French poetry. B) The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. C) Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. D) Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter. 11. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another. (Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. A weak or unaccented syllable A) Stressed. B) Unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unstressed. 13. Narrative with two levels of meaning, one stated and one unstated. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allegory. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 14. A pair of successive rhyming lines A) Hyperbole. B) Figure of speech. C) Couplet. D) Quadruplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 15. What poetry device is being used in this example:My desk is like a rock. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Voice. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 17. Language that is used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly A) Figurative Language. B) Assonance. C) Lineation. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 18. Poetry ALWAYS has to rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What is stage directions? A) List of characters in the play. B) Words that tell the actors what to say. C) Words that tell how the stage should look or what the actors should do. D) Words that tell where and when a play takes place. E) Sections of the play with similar setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words that tell how the stage should look or what the actors should do. 20. A ..... of poetry is a row consisting of a word or words that may or may not form a complete sentence. A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Sentence. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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