This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 447 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 447 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Long narrative usually about a hero's deeds. A) Epic. B) Ballad. C) Rime. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 2. A word that mimics an actual sound A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 3. Metaphor, simile, and personification are all examples of ..... A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 4. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject. A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Allusion. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 5. I wandered lonely as a cloud A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. A long narrative poem about medieval culture and secret love. A) Romance. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romance. 7. How many lines per stanza does tercet A) 6. B) 9. C) 7. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 8. What is this stanza's rhyme scheme?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!" A) AABB. B) ABCB. C) Father. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AABB. 9. What gives nonhuman things human characteristics? Example:The waves dance along the shore. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. A figure of speech that combines two words that contradict each other A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 11. That though they never equal stars in size A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. The feeling a literary work or passage evokes for the reader A) Mood. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 13. "The western wave was all aflame.The day was well nigh done!" This is an example of a synecdoche in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What does the "wave" refer to? A) A wave. B) The ocean. C) High Fives. D) Sea Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ocean. 14. If I am being literal, I ..... A) Use rhyme at the end. B) Mean directly what I'm saying. C) Am intentionally exaggerating or using metaphor. D) Am using satire/being sarcastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean directly what I'm saying. 15. What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables? A) Trochee. B) Spondee. C) Anapest. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anapest. 16. A poem that has no rhyme or meter is called a ..... verse poem. A) Free. B) Not free. C) Loose. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free. 17. What is the author's writing voice? A) The basic form of a poem. B) The intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns. C) The author's unique articulation or expression of language. D) The literary works focused on expression of feelings and ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author's unique articulation or expression of language. 18. An extended comparison between two things where there are multiple things in common. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 19. Which of these words is a "verb?" A) Slowly. B) Carpet. C) Main Street. D) Seeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seeing. 20. "The tree whispered in the wind" is an example of which kind of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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