This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 223 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 223 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Four lines form the stanza A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 2. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit A) Oxymoran. B) Elegy. C) Stanza. D) Oxymoran. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 3. An extreme exaggeration for effect is called: A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Connotation. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 4. Visualization A) The formation of a mental image of something. B) Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images. C) A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. D) Something that reveals or is a sign for something else, often something abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The formation of a mental image of something. 5. A humerous verse of Five lines A) Haiku. B) Cinquain. C) Quatrain. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 6. A long, lyrical poem usually serious in nature A) Rhyme. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) End-stopped. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 7. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet and so are you! A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 8. Poem "types" such as elegy, ode, sonnet, etc., are examples of poetic ..... A) Genres. B) Traditions. C) Forms. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forms. 9. Run-on line in poetry without pause; the line 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation A) Enjambment. B) Apostrophe. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 10. A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 11. 14 line poems (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) A) Form. B) Free verse. C) Lyrical poetry. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 12. A verse or "paragraph" of poetry A) Prose. B) Rhythm. C) Stanza. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 13. A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. E) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 14. When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything you heart desires will come to you A) BAC. B) AAA. C) ABA. D) AAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AAB. 15. Much of the post-modern poetry is in this format. A) Lyrical. B) Free Verse. C) Ballad. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 16. How many lines does the following poem have? One foot down, then hop! It's hot.Good things for the ones that's got.Another jump, now to the left.Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down.Since you black, don't stick around.Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two. All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the line, they count you out.That's what hopping's all about. Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won. A) 12. B) 10. C) 16. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 17. When two or more words close to one anotherrepeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. A) Consonance. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 18. Which of the types of ballads were not written down, but passed down orally? A) Literary ballads. B) People ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People ballad. 19. Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling A) Oxymoran. B) Irony. C) Homonym. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homonym. 20. This pen is perfect, Just right for my size.This pen is indeed perfect, But there is something I despise.The lid is cracked andThe ink is running low.The pen is a little crooked.I guess it is a little old, butOtherwise everything is fine.This pen is my favoriteWith its words still engravedAnd its healthy green glow. A) Ode. B) Haiku. C) Sonnet. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. ← 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