This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 23 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is third person point of view? A) The speaker or narrator tells the story from their own perspective. B) The speaker or narrator tells the story about other characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker or narrator tells the story about other characters. 2. An expressive use of language. A) Imagery. B) Figurative language. C) Sestet. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 3. Stanza with 8 lines A) Cinquain. B) Octave. C) Sestet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 4. A direct comparison of two different things A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. Which poetry term is being used in this example?Icy Hot A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 6. Refers to poetry written without rhyme, especially if that poetry is written in iambic pentameter. A) Blank verse. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 7. Pairs of lines that rhyme are called A) Stanzas. B) Verses. C) Couplets. D) Doubles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplets. 8. Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Allegory. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. A story can have more than one theme? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 10. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short unstressed and one stressed. A) Anapest. B) Iamb. C) Spondee. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anapest. 11. The repeating of word, phrases, or lines in a poem. A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Narrative. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. ..... is a unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word A) SYLLABLE. B) RHYME. C) SIMILE. D) SYMBOL. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SYLLABLE. 13. Repetition of sounds at the end of words; creates a song-like quality. A) Couplet. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 14. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem A) Free verse. B) Slant rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 15. What is this an example of? I am going to die if I can't have a phone. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. "spring up like dandelions" This line is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. Same end sound as anothertall/fall, fun/run A) Rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Figurative language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 18. This is rhyme that ends in similar but not exact sounds. (prove and love ) A) Exact rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant rhyme. 19. What gives human qualities to something that is non-human? A) Sensory Language. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. Where a line in the poem is broken and a new line begins A) Line Break. B) Enjambment. C) End Stop. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line Break. 21. What is the stress pattern of an iamb? A) Unstressed, unstressed. B) Stressed, unstressed. C) Unstressed, stressed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unstressed, stressed. 22. What is an Internal Rhyme A) 2 or more words within the same line of a poem that rhyme. B) The pattern in rhyme which represents identical final sounds in lines or verses. C) The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words. D) Longer direct comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2 or more words within the same line of a poem that rhyme. 23. The literal meaning or dictionary meaning of the words A) Onomatopoeia. B) Denotation. C) Imagery. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 24. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; imaginative A) Poetry. B) Figurative language. C) Hyperbole. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 25. Repeating sounds by using words whose beginning sounds are the same A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 26. An enjambed line of poetry ..... A) Has punctuation at the end of the line. B) Has no punctuation at the end of the line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has no punctuation at the end of the line. 27. The recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry A) Free verse. B) Couplet. C) Diction. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 28. This sentence appeals to which sense:The familiar tang of his grandmother's cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth. A) Taste. B) Smell. C) Sight. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taste. 29. What is Narrative Poetry A) Tells a story in verse. Has elements similar to short stories, like character and plot. B) To give human qualities to something that is not human. 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: A) Tells a story in verse. Has elements similar to short stories, like character and plot. 30. Words or phrases that express meaning but are not literally true. A) Figurative language. B) Internal rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 31. A poem that usually deals with nature or seasons. this poem has three lines of unrhymed poetry. the first is five syllables, the second is seven and the third line is five A) Haiku. B) Lyric. C) Oxymoran. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 32. The moon smiled down at me as I walked through the empty streets. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 33. A comparison between two items based on parallels or connections A) Speaker. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 34. Swimming with the fishes A) Oxymoron. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 35. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not love ( ..... )' Is an example of ..... A) A poem. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 36. Rhyme within the same line of a poem A) Internal rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 37. 2 or more rhyming words occur within the same line, 2 or more rhyming words appear in the middle of 2 separate lines, or a word at the end of a line rhymes with 1 in the middle. A) Free verse. B) Internal rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 38. A word or phrase that names something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. A) Image. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Image. 39. Which element of poetry is highlighted in this quote? "I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy." A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 40. An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for emphasis A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 41. "The wind was a gostly galleon ..... "This is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 42. What is the theme of a poem? A) A piece of writing with figurative language and repeated rhythm. B) The writings of a poet. C) The message the author wants to communicate through a piece. D) A word that has the same sound as another word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The message the author wants to communicate through a piece. 43. Poetry that is meant to be mostly for theater. It includes a person's specific situation. A) Lyric Poetry. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Dramatic Poetry. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Poetry. 44. Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality A) Point of View. B) Figurative Language. C) Speaker. D) Sound Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sound Devices. 45. When the lines do not have a rhyme scheme, a poem is considered to be this format. A) Theme. B) Inference. C) Verse. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 46. A 17 syllable traditional Japanese spiritual poem, sturctured in a 5-7-5 line way. A) Cinquain. B) Haiku. C) Lyric poem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 47. An example of a simile is "limp as a noodle." A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. A GENRE THAT CAN BE FICTION OR NON-FICTION A) Boat. B) Poem. C) Play. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama. 49. A speaker in literature is ..... A) An output hardware device that connects to a computer to generate sound. B) The protagonist in a story. C) The speaker in poetry is the person (or animal or object) that is expressing their opinion in the poem. D) Fictional characters, which you create based upon your research to represent the different user types that might use your service, product, site, or brand in a similar way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The speaker in poetry is the person (or animal or object) that is expressing their opinion in the poem. 50. What is a syllable? A) Similar consonant sounds at the start of words. B) Rhyming words. C) The number of beats within a word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The number of beats within a word. 51. How the speaker of the poem feels about the subject is the A) Atmosphere. B) Lyric. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 52. The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 53. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." A) Enjambment. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 54. A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem A) Refrain. B) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 55. Which word is defined as "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally" ? A) Hyperbole. B) Figurative meaning. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 56. The use of very descriptive, sensory language A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 57. A haiku does not rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Using letters to indicate which lines rhyme such as abab or aabb is referred to as A) Rhyme scheme. B) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 59. The speaker of a poem is its narrator. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 60. A foot of verse containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, is ..... A) Sonnet. 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