This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 95 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 95 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The familiar tang of his grandmother's cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth." Which of the following terms best defines this statement? A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. Descriptive words that appeal to the five senses Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green." A) Adjectives. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. In the book Animal Farm, each character represents a real person from history and the story matches the real historical events A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 4. The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text is A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 5. ..... is poetry that does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or pattern. A) Free verse. B) Formal verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 6. The attitude a writer takes toward a subject. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Symbol. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 7. Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meaning of words. A) Connotation. B) Simile. C) Figurative language. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 8. A set pattern of beats in lines of poetry to create rhythm. A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 9. How many lines do Haiku poems have? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 10. Figures of speech that compares two unlike things, using the words like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. Form that has a rhythm like every day speech, with no regular patterns of rhyme A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 12. Extreme exaggeration used to make a point A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadowing. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. Which term means:a mournful poem A) Lament. B) Limerick. C) Panegyric. D) Madrigal. E) Hymn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lament. 14. The physical structure of the poem:the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 15. What is an example of connotation for the word summer? A) Fun, no school, sleeping in. B) Blue. C) The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fun, no school, sleeping in. 16. BOOM! CRASH! BANG! What type of figurative language is this? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. A stanza is best defined as ..... A) A group of words that create a free verse. B) A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. C) Group of words that create a sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. 18. A two line poem and the last word of each line rhymes; usually the lines have the same number of syllables. A) Limerick. B) Couplet. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 19. "The scrumptious desserts were calling out my name" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Foreshadowing. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. What is the purpose of repetition in poetry? A) To give human qualities to something that is not human. B) The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause or sentence-more than once. C) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause or sentence-more than once. ← 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