This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 107 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 107 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dr. Seuss loved to use what in his stories A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Nonsense words. E) C and D are correct choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) C and D are correct choices. 2. The "dictionary" meaning of words contained in a poem is: A) Denotation. B) Rhythm. C) Connotation. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 3. Which is an example of a "compound word?" A) Burger King. B) Singing. C) Baseball. D) Golden retriever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baseball. 4. Line breaks can be important because they create A) Rhyme. B) They can make the poem look a certain way. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 5. Which vocabulary word is being defined? A three line Japanese verse poem A) Haiku poem. B) Concrete poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku poem. 6. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem usually at the end of a stanza A) Refrain. B) Shift of tone. C) Speaker. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 7. What sound device is used in the following sentence:The bee buzzed around my head. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example:Shakespeare's plays A) Assonance. B) Ballad. C) Blank verse. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 9. Repeating a word or phrase A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 10. A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza A) Meter. B) Refrain. C) Rhythm. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 11. Refrain A) A phrase or line recurring at intervals. (N.b. the definition does not require that a include the entire line, nor that it recur at regular intervals, though often are and do.). B) The patterns of stresses, unstressed syllables, and pauses in language. Regularly repeating rhythm is called meter. C) The study of versification, i.e. the form-meter, rhyme, rhythm, stanzaic form, sound patterns-into which poets put language to make it verse rather than something else. D) The identification and analysis of poetic rhythm and meter. To "scan" a line of poetry is to mark its stressed and unstressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A phrase or line recurring at intervals. (N.b. the definition does not require that a include the entire line, nor that it recur at regular intervals, though often are and do.). 12. "He is as strong as an ox!" is an example of a A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. A comparisson using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. A figure of speech that offers an exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a pointis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 15. The moon is like a giant flashlight in the sky. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 16. Type of parallelism created when successive phrases start with same words A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Metonymy. D) Trope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 17. My sloppy sister snoozes is an example of ..... A) Cleverness. B) Alliteration. C) A rude comment. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. If a friend asks you for help but you don't know how to explain to them you ..... A) Write it on paper. B) Show the a picture. C) Give them analogy. D) Give them a quote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give them analogy. 19. Complex lyric poem that addresses a serious theme like truth, passage of time, or justice A) Free verse. B) Ballad. C) Ode. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 20. We have been asked to identify the similarities and differences ..... the two books. A) Support. B) Compare. C) Contrast. D) Perceive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compare. ← 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