This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 204 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 204 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the attitude of the author toward a subject or an audience? A) Stanza. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 2. An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. A pattern of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups of lines is called a ..... A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 4. The writer's attitude towards his or her subject. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 5. Lines 1 & 4 rhyme, and lines 2 & 3 rhyme A) Rhyming Pattern ABCB. B) Rhyming Pattern ABAB. C) Rhyming Pattern AABB. D) Rhyming Pattern ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming Pattern ABBA. 6. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 7. The beat of a poem or song, created by stressed and unstressed syllables A) Repetition. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 8. What is the correct term for the following definition? Compares unlikely things to help readers see them in a new way/carries a metaphor through the entire poem or, at least, a long part of it. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Form. D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. 9. Which of the following contains a PUN? A) Broken pencils are pointless. B) I have a dog named Kip. C) McDonalds fries are delicious. D) Our class loves ice cream. . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broken pencils are pointless. 10. Is a form of narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical. It typically follows a pattern of rhymed quatrains A) Lyric poem. B) Ballad. C) Soliloquy. D) Villanelles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 11. Two words that rhyme at the end of lines A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End Rhyme. 12. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below? The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. A) AABB. B) Father. C) ABCD. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Father. 13. When whole words or phrases repeate A) Consonance. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 14. What is the definition of paradox? A) Statement that is contradictory to common sense. B) The opposite of what is expected to happen. C) Language that appeals to the five senses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statement that is contradictory to common sense. 15. Two opposites are used to create an effect Usually an adjective/verb "Organized chaos" "Jumbo Shrimp" A) Paradox. B) Understatement. C) Irony. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 16. A pair of rhymed lines A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Time. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 17. Lines grouped together in poetry A) Stanza. B) Lines. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. The way the reader feels while reading a poem A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 19. The point where a line of poetry ends. Poets use these strategically to put emphasis on certain words. A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Line break. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line break. 20. Two lines that come right after one another that have the same end rhyme different from the rest of the poem. A) Couplet. B) Double. C) Dual rhyme. D) Enjambment. 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