This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 157 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 157 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is "language that appeals to the five senses" ? A) Repetition. B) Imagery. C) Meter. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of following or closely connected words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Allusion. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. If the poem's ending words rhyme ..... A) It is end rhyme. B) It is internal rhym. C) It is near/slant rhyme. D) It's a sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is end rhyme. 4. A poem that doesn't rhyme, but it uses iambic pentameter A) Free verse. B) Blank verse. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 5. Which is Personification A) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns). B) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. C) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). D) "Talked my head offWorked my tail offCried my eyes out"(Shel Silverstein). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). 6. The moon sang me a lullaby A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. A three line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven. A) Ballad. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Free Verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 8. A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythological, or literary person, place, event, or work is called ..... A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 9. A poem that has no rules, rhythm or rhyme is called a- A) Regular poem. B) Narrative poem. C) Lyric poem. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem. 10. Form poetry is ..... A) Refers to a regular pattern of meter and/or rhyme in a poem. B) Iterary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refers to a regular pattern of meter and/or rhyme in a poem. 11. Poetry in lines of irregular length, usually unrhymed. A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Wrong verse. D) Man verses whale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 12. This is an example of:The Gatorade quenched my thirst after I sprinted around the track with the sun beating down. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 13. Rhythmic patterns built on the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry A) Stressed. B) Foot. C) Meter. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 14. What is a stanza break? A) The structure of appearance of a poem. B) The blank space dividing two stanzas from each other. C) A note in a piece of writing that shows the author wrote it for a special person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The blank space dividing two stanzas from each other. 15. Poetic device A) Relating to or used in poetry. B) A unit of pronunciation. C) Writing arranged with a metrical verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relating to or used in poetry. 16. A ..... is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. A) Rhyme. B) Line End. C) Line Break. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line Break. 17. Generally a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. A) Diction. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 18. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Scansion. C) Meter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. Which of these is a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme? (William Shakespeare is known for writing 154 of these during his life.) A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 20. Features of texts; they vary from one form of written text to another A) Structural elements. B) Rhyme. C) Text structure. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structural elements. ← 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