This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 195 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 195 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repetition of soundSally sells seashells by the seashore. A) Rhythm. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. In "The Raven, " the bird says again and again, "Nevermore." What is this an example of? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 3. One repeating line in a poem A) Poetic license. B) Diction. C) Free verse. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 4. Two contradictory words for effect, such as "jumbo shrimp" and "deafening silence." A) Octave. B) Ode. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 5. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word:(Sally sells sea shells, Arnold asks about Adam) A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. A song or songlike poem that tells a story, usually about lost love or betrayal or death. Ballads can be sad or humorous and usually use a great deal of repetition and simple language A) Ballad. B) Ode. C) Haiku. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 7. In the Bible, Daniel accurately translates mysterious writing that appears on a wall, and in doing so, he predicts the death of a king. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Investors should have seen the writing on the wall. A) An inaccurate prediction. B) A sign with important technical information. C) A clear indication of how something will turn out. D) None of these answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A clear indication of how something will turn out. 8. Free verse poem A) When the poem rhymes and has rhythm. B) When the poem has no rhyme or rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the poem has no rhyme or rhythm. 9. Poems can be written in many different forms! A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. What is the use of words that imitate the sounds they describe? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 11. Which of the following is the definition of a simile? A) When an author gives human characteristics to an inanimate object. B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. 12. How a poem or text appears to be organized on paper; its shape A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Form. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 13. Groups of lines, similar to paragraphs A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Lines. D) Pages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. What is the definition of a stanza? A) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. B) The name of a poem. C) A unit of language created to divide a poem. D) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. 15. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #5 What is the mood/ tone of this poem? A) Misery. B) Happiness. C) Anger. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misery. 16. A short humorous poem. It is five lines long with a specific rhyme scheme. A) Limerick. B) Lyric. C) Acrostic. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 17. Rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry A) Internal rhyme. B) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 18. The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences in a language. A) Epistrophe. B) Syntax. C) Anaphora. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 19. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called ..... A) The iamb. B) A foot. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The iamb. 20. Words that sound like what they mean. A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. ← 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