This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 151 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 151 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The length of a line is referred to as ..... and has to do with repeated sequence of meter and accented or unaccented syllables. A) Poetic feet. B) Poetic stanza. C) Poetic rhyme scheme. D) Poetic format. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic feet. 2. Which of the following IS a characteristic of a lyric poem? A) It is always written in a specific meter. B) It is always about love or losing someone you love. C) It uses emotionally charged language and images to express thoughts and feelings. D) It always has a specific rhyme scheme of ABAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It uses emotionally charged language and images to express thoughts and feelings. 3. The author's use of vivid and descriptive details that appeal to the human senses A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 4. A unit of poetry such as a stanza or line. A) Free verse. B) Blank line. C) Line. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse. 5. How the reader feels while reading the piece of writing A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 6. What do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together? A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate rhyme. D) Alliteration. E) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 7. What is a group of lines called that form a verse? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 8. I caught a fish the size of a mini van! A) Personification. B) Synecdoche. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 9. What is the feeling of a poem as created by the author's point of view? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 10. Two line stanza A) Structure. B) Quatrain. C) Lines. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 11. A poem that is about only one specific thing that the author thinks is truly amazing and praiseworthy This type of poem can be centered upon an object, an idea, or even a person A) Ode. B) Understatement. C) Overstatement. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 12. Central message the poet gives the reader A) Theme. B) Poem. C) Moral. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 13. A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. A) Pun. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. "I wonder why I always want water on Wednesdays." is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) End rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. What do you call the author of the poem? A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 16. When the poet describes one object or idea by comparing it to another object or idea. "Life is a highway." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Exaggerations, can be funny at times A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. A line of poetry having ten syllables (five feet) in iambic meter. (Much of Shakespeare's poetry is written in this). A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic Pentameter. 19. "Chocolate is chocolatey" is a metaphor A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. A line of poetry containing four metrical feet A) Dimeter. B) Octameter. C) Tetrameter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tetrameter. ← 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