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Figurative Language Quiz #2

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an allusion?

a)

A reference to another piece of literature

b)

A direct quote from a famous person

c)

A literal description of an event

d)

A type of figurative language using similes

2.

What is figurative language?

a)

Language that uses literal meanings

b)

Language that uses imaginative comparisons

c)

Language that is grammatically correct

d)

Language that is used in formal writing

3.

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

a)

The sun sparkles like a disco ball

b)

I am hungry enough to eat the fridge

c)

The dog barked loudly

d)

The sky is blue

4.

Which of the following is an example of an allusion?

a)

"Moves like Jagger"

b)

"It was a dark and stormy night"

c)

"I am hungry enough to eat the fridge"

d)

"Jump through hoops"

5.

What is the purpose of using hyperbole?

a)

To make a point through exaggeration

b)

To provide a literal description

c)

To create a rhyme

d)

To address an absent person

6.

What is the best example of an idiom?

a)

"The rain dances sometimes"

b)

"This Quizziz is a piece of cake"

c)

"The Cold Fire was cold"

d)

"This is the beginning of the end"

7.

What does the term "image" refer to in poetry?

a)

A contradiction in terms

b)

A single mental picture created in the reader's mind

c)

The predominant feeling in a poem

d)

A statement with contradictory elements

8.

What is the mood of a poem?

a)

The use of language involving incongruity

b)

The predominant feeling created by the poem

c)

A pair of opposite words

d)

A statement with contradictory elements

9.

How is mood best discovered in a poem?

a)

Through the use of language

b)

By considering the images presented

c)

By identifying contradictions

d)

By analyzing the rhyme scheme

10.

What is situational irony?

a)

When the opposite of what is expected occurs

b)

When the author implies a different meaning than intended

c)

When what is meant is the opposite of what is said

d)

A collection of appeals to the senses

11.

What is the effect of using syntax in poetry?

a)

To confuse the reader

b)

To increase the richness of figurative language

c)

To make the poem longer

d)

To change the poem's theme

12.

Which of the following is an example of a couplet?

a)

A single line of poetry

b)

Two lines of poetry that rhyme

c)

A stanza with four lines

d)

A paragraph of writing

13.

Which of the following is an example of internal rhyme?

a)

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary"

b)

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star"

c)

"How I wonder what you are"

d)

"Up above the world so high"

14.

What is a refrain in poetry?

a)

A pattern of rhyme in a poem

b)

A repeating set of words or lines

c)

A pattern of sound in a poem

d)

Rhyme that occurs at the ends of verse lines

15.

What is rhythm in poetry?

a)

A pattern of sound in a poem

b)

A repeating set of words or lines

c)

Rhyme that occurs at the ends of verse lines

d)

The pattern of rhyme in a poem

16.

2 lines from from the beginning of Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover" reads:

"The sullen wind was soon awake,

It tore the elm-tops down for spite"

What is this rhythm (form) identified as?

a)

Iambic Couplet Meter

b)

Iambic Trimeter

c)

Iambic Tetrameter

d)

Iambic Pentameter