This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 211 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 211 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... poems do not rhyme or follow patterns (do not follow any rules of poetry) A) Free verse. B) Lyrical. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 2. What is poetry that does not follow specific rules, styles, or formats, such as rhyming or patterns? A) Lyrical. B) Free verse. C) Alliteration. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 3. Five line poem or stanzas with rhyme scheme AABBA A) Refrain. B) Enclosed rhyme. C) Limerick. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 4. Non-rhyming iambic pentameter A) Free verse. B) Blank verse. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 5. What is an autobiographical poem A) A poem that the author writes about him or herself. B) A Japanese poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. C) A poem that is written in cement. D) A poem that uses figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem that the author writes about him or herself. 6. The speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Simile. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 7. A musical quality in language based on repetition A) Rhythm. B) Hyperbole. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 8. The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry is called ..... A) Repetition. B) Stanza. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. Complete this famous line ..... "May the be with you. A) Answers. B) Wealth and health. C) Knowledge. D) Force. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Force. 10. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next A) Enjambment. B) Refrain. C) Elision. D) Dissonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 11. A longer poem that tells a story is known as a ..... A) Acrostic poem. B) Lyrical poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poem. 12. Roses are red, Violets are blue. I wish you could see How much I love you! What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words? A) Meter. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 13. A writing technique in which similar sounds are at the beginning of words A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. Words whose sounds make you think of their meaning A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. Which technique is illustrated in the following:Two hawks soar and dive peacefully in the wind.A bird, like a flute, sings to a child.The hillside sits as still as a statueAs the great oak watches quietly in the wild. A) Tanka. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Clerihew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. ..... is often funny and a joke, but it is always a play on the multiple meanings or spellings of a word. A) Pun. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 17. A six-line stanza A) Tetrameter. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 18. What is the allusion? To Jake, her hair seemed like the Nile-sparkling and endless. A) Jake. B) Hair. C) Sparkling and endless. D) Nile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nile. 19. In ..... poems, the first letter of each line spells out a word or saying. A) "Who Am I?". B) Acrostic. C) Free verse. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 20. A PAIR of rhyming LINES that form a complete THOUGHT A) Couplet. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. 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