This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 482 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 482 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Palindrome A) Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things. B) A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as "jumbo shrimp" and "deafening silence.". C) A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward and forward. D) A seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward and forward. 2. A three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, it emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression A) Blank Verse. B) Ode. C) Elegy. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 3. The use of specific objects or symbols to represent ideas A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Author's Purpose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 4. Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING of at least two words in a line of poetry. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. The central topic, subject, or message in a written work. A) Poetic Licence. B) Tone. C) Metaphor. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 6. The characteristic way that a writer uses language to achieve certain effects A) Mood. B) Style. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Style. 7. 'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. Ode Poem A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. B) A type of poem that is about your feelings and mood. These poems can often be set to music. C) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. D) A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. 9. Which of the following terms is defined as:the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated; or the effect of a situation in which the opposite of what one would have thought is actually what occurs A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Free verse. D) Sonnet. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Irony. 10. An address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an inanimate object as if it were able to reply A) Cutting. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 11. The person who wrote the poem; the author of the poem A) Speaker. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet. 12. A group of lines in a poem. People often mistakenly call them paragraphs. A) Stanza. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 13. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person; usually musical A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 14. "There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;" A) Consonance. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 16. Read the following sentence: "I am as smart as a fox." This is an example of a ..... A) Poet. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) A narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. She tried to make a short version of the story or ..... it. A) Trace. B) Summarize. C) Analyze. D) Summerize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summarize. 18. ..... is a big exaggeration, usually with humor. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. What is a word that represents a sound? A) Simile. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. The use of repeated words, phrases, images, or symbols A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Ode. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. ← 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