This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 103 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 103 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ..... of the poem "The Poet" is the life of a poet, while the ..... of the poem is traditional:it has seven stanzas of two lines each; the lines of each stanza rhyme and each line has eight syllables. A) Content, form. B) Form, content. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Content, form. 2. A japanese poem of seventeen syllables; in three lines of five, seven, five. A) Haiku. B) Concrete. C) Limerick. D) Rhyming couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 3. Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as. A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. A) Form. B) Tone. C) Quatrain. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 5. Characterized by formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint. A) Romanticism. B) Classicism. C) Pastoral. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classicism. 6. What is a Alliteration? A) A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. B) A quote or statement before a poem. C) An over exaggeration to make a point. D) The repeating of sounds at the beginning of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The repeating of sounds at the beginning of words. 7. A reference to an historical person, place, or event. A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. A) Pentameter. B) Foot. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 9. Which type of poem has no rules? A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 10. Words that represent a sound. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Onopoly. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 11. "We passed the fields of grazing grain" contains ..... A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Free verse. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a A) Elegy. B) Pastiche. C) Sonnet. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 13. Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-living things. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. What word means a humorous, rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and rhyme scheme. A) Haiku. B) Refrain. C) Limerick. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 15. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" means A) The speaker stood at a dead end road. B) The speaker stood at a fork in the road. C) The speaker stood by three roads. D) The speaker stood by a path leading into the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker stood at a fork in the road. 16. Metaphors, similes, & personification are all types of this ..... A) Imagery. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 17. "The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle." is an example of which figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. An exaggeration meant for effect A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Understatement. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. Melancholy poem that laments its subject's death. A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) Italian sonnet. D) Shakespearian sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 20. A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas A) Villanelle. B) Sonnet. C) Meter. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Villanelle. ← 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