This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 105 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 105 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Crux A) A natural pause/break within poetry lines, usually near the middle. B) Emotional implication, suggestion or association of a word ex) "home" denotes where one lives, but connotation means security & family. C) Most crucial line(s) in a poem, the part that best shows the main point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most crucial line(s) in a poem, the part that best shows the main point. 2. The point of view or narrator of a poem A) Form. B) Rhyme. C) Speaker. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 3. A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect. Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all five hundred thousand different ways? A) Alliteration. B) Point of View. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 4. "My mother thinks I am her star except when I raid her cookie jar!" A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 5. Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentamenter A) Blank verse. B) End-stopped line. C) Fixed form. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 6. The repeated use of a word or phrase in a poem; used for emphasis and it helps the reader remember the important parts of the poem. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Repetition. C) Lyric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 7. A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line A) Internal rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Near rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 8. Words that *almost* rhyme but not exactly, like 'wane' and 'again.' A) Slant rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Connotation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme. 9. ATMOSPHERE A) The thing around the earth. B) The mood. C) The tone. D) A round ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mood. 10. The most simple/central unit of a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 11. The person who wrote the poem is the A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Author. D) Reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet. 12. Type of writing in which rhythm and sounds of words are as important as their definitions A) Novel. B) Short Story. C) Poetry. D) A play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 13. The rhyming of words within a line of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. It is a poem of 17 syllables A) Elegy. B) Haiku. C) Sonnet. D) Song. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 15. What is the term for the overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem? A) Rhythm. B) Mood. C) Temperature. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 16. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of a- A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 17. What is a literary device that is the repetition of sound that is identical or similar? A) Rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Analogy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 18. Allegory A) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. B) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. C) A poem written in a 5 7 5 pattern. The numbers represent the number of syllables in each line. D) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. 19. This is the general definition of a comparison of any two things A) Analogy. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 20. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in poem A) Idiom. B) Stanza. C) Lyric. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. ← 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