This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 114 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 114 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of lines placed together in a poem is a ..... A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Poem. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 2. Boom, buzz, pow, bang A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference to literature, music, art, pop culture, the news, etc. A) ALLUSION. B) SIMILE. C) PUN. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ALLUSION. 4. When rhyming words come at the ends of the lines. The most common type of poetic rhyme. A) Internal rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 5. What type of poem tells a story? A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Sonnet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 6. Trochaic meter A) Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. B) 4 feet per line. C) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. D) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. 7. The pattern of end rhymes, written out in letters (AABB) A) Theme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Poem. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 8. "Plunk" is an example of what? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. A writer's or speaker's choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Diction. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 10. One thing that stands for something else is referred to as A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 11. Which word decribes a technique used by writers where a thing which ordinarily is known for one thing actually represents something completely different such as DIckinson's setting sun and Frost's two roads? A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 12. A section at the end of a book that serves as a comment or a conclusion to what has happened A) Dialogue. B) Epilogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epilogue. 13. True or false:every sonnet must contain exactly fourteen lines A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. A ..... in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Rhyme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 15. Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. Example:sun/noon, should/food, slim/ham. A) Eye rhyme:. B) Slant rhyme:. C) Rhyme scheme:. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant rhyme:. 16. The "speaker" in poetry refers to A) The person speaking in the poem could be the poet or the character in the poem. B) The narrator in a play or drama. C) The audience that is reading the poem. D) A type of electronics used to project sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The person speaking in the poem could be the poet or the character in the poem. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 18. Genre A) A category of artistic composition. B) A category of superheros. C) A category of people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A category of artistic composition. 19. Rhyme scheme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ..... of lines of poetry. A) Beginning. B) Middle. C) End. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 20. Which figurative language is this an example of:My father told me that life is a journey. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. ← 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