This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 166 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 166 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a poem with a musical rhythm that often explores emotional topics like love and often uses first person? A) Lyrical poem. B) Free verse. C) Stanzas. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical poem. 2. Scheme A) A large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect. B) A way in which something is done. C) Compound verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect. 3. The comparison or juxtaposition of things that are different A) Contrast. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrast. 4. The shape or structure of a poem; the way a poem looks on the page A) Lines. B) Mood. C) Form. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 5. A poem that tells a story and has characters, setting, and a plot with conflict A) Stanza. B) Narrative poem. C) Haiku. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative poem. 6. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. A) Rhythm. B) Sonnet. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 7. A figure of speech in which two things are compared usually by saying one thing is another. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. A conversation between 2 or more characters A) Tragedy. B) Dialogue. C) Monologue. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 9. Which word means a comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another thing? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Quatrain. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. Line A) One line in a poem. B) A line of clothes. C) The number of syllabes in a line. D) Words that rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One line in a poem. 11. How many stanzas does the poem below have. It came in a winter's night, a fierce cold with quite a bite.Frosted wind with all its mightsent ice and snow an inviteto layer earth in pure whiteand glisten with morning light. A) 1. B) 6. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 12. An author's tone that inspires a comic atmosphere, can lead to a playful feeling in writing A) Serious. B) Humorous. C) Objective. D) Personal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humorous. 13. Poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-that does not rhyme A) Limerick. B) Free Verse. C) Haiku. D) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blank Verse. 14. A 14 line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love. They contain internal rhymes within their 14 lines; the exact rhyme scheme depends on the style A) Sonnet. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 15. A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 16. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables with the even-numbered syllables bearing the stress A) Free verse. B) Blank verse. C) Meter. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 17. Anapest or anapestic A) Unstressed stressed. B) Stressed unstressed. C) Unstressed unstressed stressed. D) Stressed unstressed unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unstressed unstressed stressed. 18. One line of poetry is ..... A) Per room. B) A simile. C) A sentence. D) To see. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To see. 19. Pun A) A play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by exploiting similar sounding words that have different meanings. B) Memes are this generation's version of puns. C) Not all puns are created equal!. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by exploiting similar sounding words that have different meanings. 20. A line of tetrameter contains this many feet: A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four. ← 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