This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 100 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 100 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter A) Lyric Poem. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 2. Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. Poetic devices like hyperbole, symbolism, metaphor, and personification all fall into the category of ..... A) Sound devices. B) Form. C) Figurative language. D) Useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 4. A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. A) Cutting. B) Chiasmus. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 5. A type of poem in which the first letters of each line form a word. A) Acrostic. B) Narrative poem. C) Sonnet. D) Concrete poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrostic. 6. A writer of verse is often called a A) Poet. B) Poem Person. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 7. Villanelle A) A nineteen-line poem divided into five three line (tercet) stanzas and ending with a four-line stanza (quatrain), with a regular rhyme scheme and two refrains echoed in each stanza. B) A poem written to lament someone's death. C) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. D) An Italian form consisting of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines each with no definitive structure or rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nineteen-line poem divided into five three line (tercet) stanzas and ending with a four-line stanza (quatrain), with a regular rhyme scheme and two refrains echoed in each stanza. 8. A trochee follows which pattern of stress? A) Stressed, unstressed. B) Unstressed, stressed. C) Unstressed, unstressed, stressed. D) Stressed, unstressed, unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stressed, unstressed. 9. Repetition within consonants at the end of words A) Alliteration. B) Speaker. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 10. Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning? A) Infer. B) Analyze. C) Explain. D) Compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infer. 11. A particular method of using sounds in language (alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification etc.) A) Rhyme (rima). B) Poetic techniques (caracteristicas poeticas). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic techniques (caracteristicas poeticas). 12. What does "metaphor" mean? A) Rhymes at the end of lines. B) Comparing two unlike things using the verb "is". C) Repetition of a sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparing two unlike things using the verb "is". 13. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Theme. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. A sound device in which a word makes the sound A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 15. What is this an example of? Break a leg. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 16. A repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Anaphora. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 17. BAM! The door shut behind me. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. A poem's form is its A) Type (ie sonnet, haiku, ode, etc). B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Arrangement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arrangement. 19. ..... is the repeating of words, phrases, or lines in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Free verse. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 20. The moonlight danced over the still water on the lake. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books