This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 216 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 216 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A sonnets consists of how many lines? A) 14 lines. B) 5 lines. C) 16 lines. D) 6 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14 lines. 2. A group of lines in a poem; analogous to a paragraph in prose writing. A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Sentence. D) Grouping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 3. Exclamation; character speaks directly to someone who is not present, dead, or inanimate (object) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 4. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. What is the rhyme scheme? A) A A B B C C. B) A B A B C C. C) B B A A C A. D) A C A B A C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A B A B C C. 5. The way a word feels (societal feeling) A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 6. What is a poem that has no regular pattern or rhyme or rhythm called? A) A ballad. B) An ode. C) A free verse. D) A limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A free verse. 7. The sunflowers nodded in the wind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 8. Gives human traits to something that is not living A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Meter. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line A) Cutting. B) Syntax. C) Enjambment. D) End-stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 10. What is the tone? "I come here with my injuryTo see your injury.From here on, I fight against what I canAnd what I can't." A) Angry. B) Peaceful. C) Inspired. D) Determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Determined. 11. A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or ..... A) Symbol. B) Mood. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 12. What is similar to the chorus of a song (the part repeated)? A) Oxymoron. B) Refrain. C) Paradox. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 13. Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to stand for something else. A) Symbol. B) Allusion. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 14. ..... is a person who write poetry. A) Poet. B) Author. C) I don't know. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 15. Giving human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. The use of words and phrases that convey how things look, feel, smell, sound and taste. A) Mood. B) Rhythm. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 17. On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. The pattern of rhyming in a poem; usually identified by assigning letters to each line (ABAA, or ABAB) A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Sonnet. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 19. Two qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together: A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 20. Personification is when A) Loaded words that create an emotional reaction. B) A comparison between two unlike things. C) The poet assigns human qualities to something that's not human. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet assigns human qualities to something that's not human. ← 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