This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 202 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 202 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a writer describes an object as if it were a person A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. A person who writes poems A) Poet. B) Alliteration. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 3. Which word means "the narrative voice in a poem that speaks of his or her situation or feelings" ? A) Narrative. B) Bildungsroman. C) Speaker. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 4. What doesn't have rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter A) Internal Rhyme. B) Blank Verse. C) Connotation. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank Verse. 5. All the world's a stage(William Shakespeare, As You Like It) Death is the broomI take in my handsTo sweep the world clean.(Langston Hughes, "War" ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables. A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Simile. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 7. The feeling that a poem creates in the reader. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Symbol. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 8. Trochee A) Foot consisting of a stress followed by an unstressed syllable. B) Foot consisting of 2 stressed syllables. C) Stanza or poem of 3 lines. D) Group of lines making up a single unit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot consisting of a stress followed by an unstressed syllable. 9. A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and is written in separate lines which often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme. A) Poem. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 10. The sound of poetry; how it is supposed to be said. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Symbol. D) Stanza. E) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Rhythm. 11. Regular pattern of rhyme, normally charted with letters of the alphabet A) Organic form. B) Form. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 12. Long poem written in stanzas of varying length, meter, and form; usually serious, but can be lighthearted A) Ode. B) Pun. C) Refrain. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 13. A Haiku has five of these and a Sonnet has 14. What are they? A) Lines. B) Stanzas. C) Meters. D) Rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lines. 14. Which of the following is a euphemism for LYING A) Telling a fib. B) Deviating from the truth. C) Tell a tall tale. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. Verse meaning is..... A) Denotes a single line of poetry, can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. B) An open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. C) The stanza that keeps on repeating after some lines in a poem, see often in songs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotes a single line of poetry, can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. 16. What is a Personification? A) A comparison of two unlike things. B) A comparison of two like things. C) Giving a nonhuman thing human traits. D) Referencing a fact, event, person, or other general knowledge that the author expects the audience to know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giving a nonhuman thing human traits. 17. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. A quatrain consists of ..... A) 5 lines. B) 6 lines. C) 4 lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 lines. 19. (Similar to the chorus in a song) A) Meter. B) Verse. C) Refrain. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 20. Two rhyming lines A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. ← 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