This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 212 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 212 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is repeating word, phrase, or line in a poem? A) Stanzas. B) Alliteration. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 2. The repetition of the same vowel sounds among words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 3. Human qualities given to nonliving objects A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A long narrative poem which tells of the adventures of heroic characters, over a long period or describes some monumental task. Often, supernatural forces play a part in the action A) Ode. B) Ballad. C) Epic. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 5. A stanza is to a poem as a ..... is to a story. A) Title. B) Author. C) Paragraph. D) Main idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paragraph. 6. What is a paradox in poetry? A) A comparison between two unlike ideas. B) Statement that seems contradictory but may be true. C) A detailed comparison that extends through multiple lines. D) A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statement that seems contradictory but may be true. 7. AUTOBIOGRAPHY A) A book written about somebody by somebody else. B) A self written story about that person. C) Ghost story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A self written story about that person. 8. A grouping of lines in poetry expressing a unifying idea A) Paragraph. B) Meter. C) Foot. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 9. Dysphemism A) Use of harsh sounding words or a discord of sounds. B) Balancing pattern where the main elements are reversed ex) fair is foul & foul is fair. C) Repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence, especially at the ends of words ex) each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. D) Opposite of euphemism, a crude/shocking word/expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposite of euphemism, a crude/shocking word/expression. 10. To repeat something over and over ..... A) Repitition. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Line Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repitition. 11. Your smile is like a bright light in my dark world ..... This is a ..... A) Refrain. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. An idea about life that emerges from a poem A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Theme. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 13. True or False:Free Verse MUST have a rhyme scheme A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown.(Robert Frost, "To a Moth Seen in Winter" ) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. A pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter, usually in the middle of a line A) Cesura. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Mood. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 16. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thingof a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. A) Limerick. B) Concrete. C) Simile. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. What is the importance of sound devices in poetry? A) It gives the poem a musical feel, which contributes to the meaning and mood of the poem. B) It helps create the beat in a poem. C) It shows that there is a change in the writing. D) It shows the main idea of each stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It gives the poem a musical feel, which contributes to the meaning and mood of the poem. 18. A song or songlike poem that tells a story mostly dealing with adventure or romance A) Assonance. B) Ballad. C) Homonym. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 19. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 20. The rose, in "A Rose from Concrete" represents A) Black People. B) Youth. C) 2Tpac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Youth. ← 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