This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 494 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 494 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define Punctuation A) -A word that imitates the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to; words that sound like what they describe or name. B) Exaggerated used for emphasis or effect. C) -Line ends with some mark of punctuation; we pause at the end of the line. D) Repetition of the same consonant sound in a series of words, usually at the beginning of the words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -Line ends with some mark of punctuation; we pause at the end of the line. 2. A short poem of songlike quality is a limerick. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. An intricate, extended, or far-fetched metaphor or simile that arouses a feeling of surprise, shock, or amusement. A) Conceit. B) Chiasmus. C) Symbolism. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 4. Using like or as to compare something A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. An author's word choice A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 6. A section of a novel is called ..... A) A chapter. B) A scene. C) Per room. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A chapter. 7. "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. This section of the poem is written in lines of two that rhyme, which is called ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Couplets. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplets. 8. Compare 2 unlike objects without "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. Comparing two unlike things saying one actually is another A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Parallel Structure A) The repetition of similar sounds. B) Repeated word patterns to show equal importance. C) A group of lines in a poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repeated word patterns to show equal importance. 11. A stanza that has four lines. A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quatrain. 12. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #2 The people in the poem use a masquerade to A) Tell a lie. B) Disguise their pain. C) Torture their friends. D) Pretend to be wise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disguise their pain. 13. A feeling the author creates A) Personification. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 14. Poetry that relays the speaker's personal feelings A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 15. Descriptive language that creates word pictures A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Paradox. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. A thing that stands for and represents itself and something else. A) Symbol. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 17. What does "allusion" mean? A) A reference to something in history or literature. B) A deceptive phrase. C) A statement of exaggeration. D) A comparison of two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reference to something in history or literature. 18. "I throw down so hard, the fiberglass trembles" A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. How a poem or text appears to be organized on papers; its shape A) Structure. B) Form. C) Line. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 20. Word association A) Irony. B) Stanza. C) Form. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. ← 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