This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She's gone to a better place is a euphemism for ..... A) She's on vacation. B) She's dead. C) She's left the country. D) She's in Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She's dead. 2. Identify the rhyme scheme of this poem:Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. A) A-b-a-b. B) A-a-b-b. C) A-b-c-b. D) A-b-c-d. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A-a-b-b. 3. ..... is when the same (or similar) sounds are repeated at the end of words. A) ALLITERATION. B) METER. C) RHYME. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RHYME. 4. A six-line stanza, usually the second stanza of an Italian sonnet A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain (Quintain, Quintet). C) Sestet (Sextet). D) Octave (Octet). E) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sestet (Sextet). 5. Foot A) Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry. B) First typeset version of a poem, magazine, and/or book/chapbook. C) A token payment for published work. D) The rhythmic measure of a line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry. 6. Using symbols to represent ideas A) Suspense. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 7. 2 lines per stanza A) Cinquain. B) Tercet. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 8. Type of poetry that does NOT rhyme. A) Free verse. B) Narrative. C) Lyrical. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 9. Quintain A) Line consisting of 8 syllables. B) Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress. C) Stanza of 8 lines. D) Stanza of 5 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza of 5 lines. 10. All of these are types of poetry EXCEPT: A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Tail. D) Short Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short Story. 11. A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. The person or "voice" telling the story or relating the description; the "speaker" A) Narrator. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrator. 13. A poem that stems from African American culture and the musical tradition of the blues, typically highlighting themes of struggle, pain and despair A) Acrostic. B) Concrete. C) Narrative poem. D) Blues poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blues poem. 14. Empty; having little or no vegetation. A) Deserted. B) Fester. C) Barren. D) Vibrant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barren. 15. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. The repeating of sounds at the end of words A) Rhyme. B) Limerick. C) Consonance. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 17. Meter A) Rhythmic structure dictated by the number of syllables and the pattern in which these syllables are emphasized. B) Refers to the rhyming pattern within a verse of poetry. C) Is a poem that doesn't rely on any particular form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas. D) Is poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythmic structure dictated by the number of syllables and the pattern in which these syllables are emphasized. 18. This type of poem has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the final line. It is usually about nature. What kind of poem is it? A) Limerick. B) Concrete. C) Haiku. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 19. "Nothing Gold Can stay" -by Robert Forster Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaves a flower, But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay. A) The rhyme scheme is ABAB ABAB . B) The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDD . C) The rhyme scheme is ABCD EFGH . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDD . 20. A single line of poetry. A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. ← 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