This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 197 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 197 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that has 14 lines, and each line must have exactly 10 syllables and be written in iambic pentameter. In a typical Shakespearean one of these, the last couplet (two lines) of the poem rhymes. A) Pantoum. B) Bonnet. C) Sonnet. D) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 2. Sarcasm A) Repeating pattern of accented/unaccented syllables poetry lines. B) Type of irony where it appears to be praising something while actually insulting the thing. C) Object, person, place, action that means something/represents something larger than its self. D) Description of 1 kind of sense impression normally used to describe a different sense ex) sweet voice, velvety smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type of irony where it appears to be praising something while actually insulting the thing. 3. A single "sentence" of a poem A) Couplet. B) Free Verse. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 4. The beat and pace of a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Inversion. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 5. Diction is the dictionary meaning of a word; the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. A more modern poem that sounds conversational and has no rules is ..... (hint:type of organic poem) A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 7. "dappled doggies dash" A) Stanza. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. Words that represent the actual sound of something A) Rhyme. B) Sound. C) Form. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. Is it true that ..... All poems must rhyme/Todos los poemas deben rimar. A) True. B) False/False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False/False. 10. Which of the following best exemplify a metaphor? A) The snow is a white blanket. B) The snow is very cold. C) The snow is like falling ash. D) The silence was as suffocating as the snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The snow is a white blanket. 11. "Curving up, then down. Meeting blue sky and green earth. Melding sun and rain." If I rearranged these ideas into three lines with a specific pattern of syllables, then I have created a ..... A) Ballad. B) Simile. C) Haiku. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 12. In poetry, what is "meter" ? A) Words that sound the same. B) Sophisticated vocabulary. C) The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables. D) The length of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables. 13. The repeated 'T' sounds in the following line are an example of:To the tune o' those Weary Blues. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 14. Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 15. A form of dramatic exaggeration used in poetry and prose alike A) Hyperbole. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. Poem or stanza composed of 5 lines A) Couplet. B) Cinquain. C) Sonnet. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinquain. 17. The beat in a poem A) Stanza. B) Lines. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 18. A group of lines of poetry is called ..... A) To see. B) Per room. C) A paragraph. D) A collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Per room. 19. Direct comparison A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Imagery is ..... A) A conversation between two or more people in a book, play, or movie. B) Something attractive or interesting. C) Using words to create a mental picture. D) The voice of the person or object telling us the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using words to create a mental picture. ← 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