This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 170 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 170 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This has two rhyming lines; however, the first line is longer than the second line. The first line has 5 stressed syllables and the second line has 2 A) Couplet. B) Line breaks. C) Split couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Split couplet. 2. Using objects to represent ABSTRACT qualities or themes A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Illusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 3. A figure of speech which compared two unlike objects without using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 5. A silly poem with a sing-song rhythm and this rhyme scheme:AABBA. A) Limerick. B) Lyric. C) Haiku. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 6. Which of the following is not an example of an allusion? A) His wife was his Achille's heel. B) He lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's. C) She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden. D) We'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. 7. A person who reads the poem out loud A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Narrator. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 8. What is the definition of Literal Language? A) Language meant to be understood EXACTLY as it is written. B) The patter of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) Four line stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language meant to be understood EXACTLY as it is written. 9. A kind of verse that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend, often has a repeated refrain and is about love, MOST often adapted for singing A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Syllables. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 10. A set pattern of rhyme is called (ababcdcd) etc A) Meter. B) Feet. C) Iamb. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 11. An example of the term "alliteration" is ..... A) Gray geese in a green field grazing. B) The stars glittered like fireflies in the night sky. C) The whole audience was cackling at how hilarious the movie was. D) Oh, the bells, bells, bells!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gray geese in a green field grazing. 12. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, or work of art. A) Symbol. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 13. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. A comparison of two things that have something in common and directly states one thing is something else. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Dictionary definition A) Formal tone. B) Lyric. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 16. When the truth is exaggerated to add humor or emphasis A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. A set of two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Apostrophe. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 18. A pattern of rhyming words inside the same line A) Rhyme Scheme:End. B) Rhyme Scheme:Internal. C) Rhyme Scheme:Slant. D) Rhyme Scheme:Eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme:Internal. 19. What would the rhyme scheme be? You act so cool / But I am no fool / You play the game / But all you care about is fame A) Father. B) ABBA. C) AABB. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AABB. 20. A line of poetry that shows an image and expresses ideas that appeal to the sense is called what? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. ← 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