This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 117 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 117 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We can feel and understand this part of poetry in songs and dance. Pattern of strong and weak stresses on words to give A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 2. A type of poetry that exhibits poetic language but does not follow fixed patterns A) Free verse. B) Ballads. C) Odes. D) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 3. Describes one things as if it were something else. A) Imagery. B) Figurative language. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. What is the definition of a rhythm? A) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. B) The poet's attitude about the poem's topic or subject. C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. D) Language that is not literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. 5. Synesthesia A) Repeating pattern of accented/unaccented syllables poetry lines. B) Type of irony where it appears to be praising something while actually insulting the thing. C) Object, person, place, action that means something/represents something larger than its self. D) Description of 1 kind of sense impression normally used to describe a different sense ex) sweet voice, velvety smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Description of 1 kind of sense impression normally used to describe a different sense ex) sweet voice, velvety smile. 6. Choose the clue words that indicate compare and contrast. A) Therefore, cause, effect, consequently. B) Later, then, next, Monday. C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. D) Possibility, struggle, hope, problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. 7. Bonus:Verb Tense A) The repetition of similar sounds. B) Who is telling the story?. C) Past, present, or future, when the events in the poem happened. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past, present, or future, when the events in the poem happened. 8. What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses? A) Stanza. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Optical illusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 9. The author's message or insight about a topic A) Sonnet. B) Topic. C) Metaphor. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 10. A special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Conceit. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. What is a "stanza containing four lines" ? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme. D) LImerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 12. A single line of poetry is A) Free verse. B) Verse. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verse. 13. ..... is a comparison of two things without using like or as.Example:The sun is a big yellow balloon. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Source of inspiration, a guiding genius; many classical poems begin with an invocation of the ( ..... ), where the poet calls on his ( ..... ) for inspiration A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Muse. D) Pathos. E) Persona (voice). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muse. 15. What do we call a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What type of figurative language is the following example?The tree laughed loudly at Miss Martin's horrible joke. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Symbol. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. "5000 tongues applauded" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. A piece of writing where the writer uses imaginary rhythm and style to express feelings or ideas is called: A) An oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Poetry. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 19. When a word, line, or stanza is repeared throughout a poem ..... A) Stanza. B) Sonnet. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. A) Hyperbole. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. ← 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