This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 109 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 109 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the topic of a free verse poem? A) Silly. B) Tells a Story. C) Nature. D) Anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anything. 2. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem A) Prose. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Connotation. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 3. ..... occurs when words at the end of lines rhyme with each other. A) Internal rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 4. Dramatic change in thought and/or emotion A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Shift. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift. 5. Poems that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker A) Mock epic. B) Lyric. C) Free verse. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 6. "The stars danced in the night sky" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. What is the point of view in a poem? A) A piece of writing with figurative language and repeated rhythm. B) The writings of a poet. C) The perspective from which a poem is written. D) A word that has the same sound as another word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The perspective from which a poem is written. 8. During World War II Sweden was Neutral or ..... on which side they were on. A) Literal. B) Judge. C) In the middle. D) Suggested. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the middle. 9. May feature colloquial language-local idioms and slang expressions A) Informal tone. B) Formal tone. C) Lyric. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informal tone. 10. A poem with no rhythm or rhyme. A) Lyrical poetry. B) Free verse. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 11. What word means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind. A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 12. What is the term for the use of words to create a picture or image in the reader's mind in a poem? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme; more like everyday talk. A) Rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 14. A brief, intentional reference, to a famous or well known historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement. Often referenced texts include the Bible and Greek mythology. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 15. Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 16. Anthropomorphism A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. C) Repetition of accented vowel sounds in a sentence ex) he cried a sigh of high denial. D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. 17. A line of dimeter contains this many feet: A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 18. The ideas and feelings associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 19. A pause in the middle of a line of poetry A) Enjambment. B) Consonance. C) Euphemism. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting. 20. "Using extreme exaggeration to make a point" is a definition of: A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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