This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 496 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 496 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I wish that date would fade from memory. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) None. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 2. A poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing that isn't present with an exclamation. A) Apostrophe. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 3. What rhyme scheme is an ode? A) ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG. B) ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH. C) Free verse. D) AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH. 4. A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement A) Simile. B) Figurative language. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. A figure of speech in which an exaggerated statement is made. A) Hyperbole. B) Enjambment. C) Assonance. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. Figurative language in which a paradox contains a direct contradiction. Ex:Jumbo shrimp A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 7. The author's attitude or feeling about the text. A) Allusion. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 8. What is the poet's attitude about the subject or topic in a poem? A) Form. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 9. Identify what type of figurative language the following sentence displays.Her eyes were diamonds in the moonlight. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. The individual parts of a poem are its ..... A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Rhymes. D) Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 11. Most monsters don't mind making messes. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 12. Language that is imaginative and goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create imagery A) Spanish. B) Haiku. C) Figurative Language. D) Interrogative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 13. Two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Dissonance. D) Ms. Johnstun's attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 14. Giving inanimate objects human qualities A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. A fourteen lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter A) Prose. B) Sonnet. C) Homonym. D) Oxymoran. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 16. How the writer feels about what he/she is writing is ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 17. A speaker or writer's choice of words A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 18. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A) ABBA. B) ABCC. C) AABB. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABBA. 19. A story or poem's message about life or human nature A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 20. Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. ← 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