This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 176 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 176 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Basic unit of a poem A) Syllable. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 2. Narrative poetry is like narrative writing. Both tell a A) Response. B) Alliteration. C) Couplet. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Story. 3. A folk ballad is a oral tradition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. A stanza or poem with 4 lines, usually with alternate rhymes A) Quatrain. B) Sestet. C) Third. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 5. Words that have the same or similar ending sounds. A) Internal rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 6. A form of lyric poetry; has 14 lines and 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. A) Narrative poem. B) Quatrain. C) Imagery. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 7. The speaker in the poem A) Persona/Narrator. B) Poet. C) Voice. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persona/Narrator. 8. Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ..... "Bright Star" by John Keats A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Apostrophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 9. A humorous, rhyming, 5-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme A) Haiku. B) Concrete. C) Limerick. D) Rhyming couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 10. A poem's paragraphs are called ..... A) Stanzas. B) Verses. C) Lines. D) Refrains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 11. Repetition of an initial word in successive lines of poetry. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 12. A poem that expresses the personal thought and feelings of a speaker. A) Lyric poem. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem. 13. A poem with no regular rhythm or rhyme A) Free verse. B) Ode. C) Haiku. D) Organic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 14. Sound words A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 15. The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (dark, dastardly deeds) A) Simile. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 16. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. When the SOUND of a word imitates its meaning. A) Boom. B) Mood. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. A comparison between two dissimilar things that is stated as fact A) Assonance. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. Meter, as defined in poetry, is: A) A measurement of time and space. B) Poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. 20. What is the definition of repetition? A) The act of doing or saying something once. B) The act of doing or saying something differently. C) The act of doing or saying something again or repeatedly. D) The act of doing or saying something randomly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The act of doing or saying something again or repeatedly. ← 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