This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 418 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 418 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A ..... is an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem. A) Apostrophe. B) Conceit. C) Alliteration. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conceit. 2. Which is an example of tone? A) Life is like a box of chocolates. B) Pizza is heaven. C) Happy, Sad, Scary, Peaceful, Funny and etc. D) Kids could hear the popping and crackling as their mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Happy, Sad, Scary, Peaceful, Funny and etc. 3. The description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. This gives human like qualities or abilities to nonhuman things A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. Stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience. A) People mess. B) Traditional ballad. C) Dialect. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People mess. 6. The way a word makes you feel A) Personification. B) Consonance. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 7. The literary device of ..... is giving non living things human like characteristics or qualities A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. The crocodile's teeth are white daggers. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. A line or group of lines in a poem separated from other lines by extra white space A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Line. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 10. Groupings of words A) Tercet. B) Meter. C) Lines. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lines. 11. Sounds that imitate meanings (pop, fizz, hiss) A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. In poetry, "feet" describes A) A typical metaphor for shoes. B) 12 inches. C) Basic rhythm/beat in a line of poetry. D) The amount of words per line of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basic rhythm/beat in a line of poetry. 13. Long narrative poems that are written in heightened language and tells the stories or the deeds of a heroic character A) Lyric. B) Homonym. C) Epics. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epics. 14. Rhyme Scheme:I love cats, and I like dogs.But most of allI like bats. A) Father. B) ABCD. C) ABCA. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABCA. 15. What term means a "voice" that talks to readers? A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Speaker. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 16. Address to an absent or imaginary person A) Colloquialism. B) Black humor. C) Apostrophe. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 17. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" uses what type of sound device? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. Rhymes A) Repeated sounds at the end of lines (pool, rule, fuel). B) The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence-more than once. C) The use of words that imitate sounds (crash, bang, hiss, splat). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated sounds at the end of lines (pool, rule, fuel). 19. "I'm so tired I could sleep a year" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. Words that have a similarity in sound but are not exact rhymes. A) Slant rhyme. B) Approximate rhyme. C) Eye rhyme. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. ← 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