This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 193 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words spelled like they sound A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. Using the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis is ..... A) Recurrence. B) Iteration. C) Repetition. D) Duplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. "An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again." What type of poem is shown above? A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Elegy. D) Epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 4. When abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions A) Allusion. B) Figurative language. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Feeling of a literary work A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Style. D) Persona. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 6. Ballad stanza A) A comparison between two things using like or as. B) An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. C) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. D) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. 7. When words mean exactly what they say A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Symbol. D) Literal language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Literal language. 8. An open form of poetry which does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. A) Humorous poem. B) Lyric poem. C) Epic poem. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem. 9. Who or what the poem is about. A) Theme. B) Subject. C) Tone. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 10. Poetry that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called ..... A) Free verse. B) Humorous poetry. C) Narrative poetry. D) Lyrical poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poetry. 11. Which type of writing is written in stanzas? A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 12. Match the word to the definition:the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words A) Consonance. B) Dissonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 13. A lyric poem of fourteen lines commonly written in iambic pentameter. A) Ode. B) Ballad. C) Lyric. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 14. The attitude that the AUTHOR has towards a subject is A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Opinion. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 15. The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once. A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. What is the voice of who's telling the poem like the narrator in a story? A) Stanza. B) Audience. C) Anaphora. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 17. When two (or more) words make the same sound at the end of the word. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 18. An elegy is a poem of ..... reflection, typically for the dead. A) Funny. B) Silly. C) Deadly. D) Serious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serious. 19. ..... is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases several times to make an idea clearer and more emphatic. A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 20. Language that appeals to the five senses-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; sensory detail A) Idiom. B) Symbol. C) Imagery. D) Spidey-sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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