This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 183 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 183 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is defined as-as the use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Meter. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. When two words in the same line rhyme A) Connotation. B) Limerick. C) Lyrical poetry. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 3. A four line stanza is called a A) Sestina. B) Quatrain. C) Quadrant. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 4. Repeating identical consonant sounds A) Simile. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 5. "How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath / To say to me that thou are out of breath?" This is an example of ..... or unrhymed iambic pentameter. A) Sonnet. B) Blank verse. C) Couplet. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 6. What are the structural elements of a poem? A) The basic rhythmic structure in verse. B) The intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns. C) The distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics. D) The basic form of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The basic form of a poem. 7. What is the speaker? A) The voice in the poem. B) The attitude the writer takes toward the subject, character and reader. C) The writer's choice of words for clarity, effectiveness and precision. D) Atmosphere or emotion the writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The voice in the poem. 8. A rhyming poem of 14 lines is called ..... A) An ode. B) A sonnet. C) A haiku. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sonnet. 9. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this walking hat. A) Wow. B) The father. C) Ababa. D) Papaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The father. 10. Which best describes a rhyme scheme? A) It is the visual description of a poem. B) The theme behind the poem and its meaning. C) The combination of all the rhymes in a poem. D) The pattern of rhyme words at the end of each line of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The pattern of rhyme words at the end of each line of a poem. 11. Language that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, taste, touch, sound) is called ..... A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Poetry. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 12. Which term means an extreme exaggeration? A) Synecdoche. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Creates the flow of the poem:fast, choppy or smooth. A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Diction. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 14. The structure of a poem; how it is built A) Form. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 15. In the poem "Fog", the first two lines are "The fog comes on little cat feet." When a sentence is continued without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza in a poem, it is called ..... A) Tone. B) Enjambment. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 16. The measurement of rhythm in poems, measured by the number of feet in one line of poetry. A) Foot. B) Meter. C) Diagram. D) Stressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 17. The shirt, so bright, I needed sunglasses to look at it. A) Rhyme. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. Comparing two things usually by saying one is the other A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 19. A group of words in one row A) Poetic structure. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 20. The writer's attitude towards his/her subject is ..... A) Symbol. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. ← 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