This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 225 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 225 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is an example of repetition? A) The door went BAM! when it was shut. B) She looked at the card and laughed and smiled. C) Was it him? Was it him? Was it him?. D) The good cook cooked cookies like a good cook should. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was it him? Was it him? Was it him?. 2. When a rhyme occurs WITHIN a line of poetry, it is called? A) End rhymes. B) Approximate rhymes. C) Exact rhymes. D) Internal rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhymes. 3. Different sense from its proper use ex) metaphor, synecdoche A) Trope. B) Archetype. C) Canan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trope. 4. An unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature; it is a poem with 3 lines, it has a total of 17 syllables, line 1 has 5 syllables, line 2 has 7 syllables, and line 3 has 5 syllables. A) Title. B) Haiku. C) Simile. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 5. The repeating of a word or phrase. A) Stanza. B) Synecdoche. C) Repetition. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 6. Which of the following best describes a theme of "The Road Not Taken" ? A) Sometimes one must make a choice without knowing if it will be best and live with the consequences. B) There will always be decisions in life, but one can return and make the decision differently if one makes a mistake. C) Following one's heart is easier than following one's head, but since decisions don't really matter it is best to follow one's heart. D) Making the most common or popular decisions ensures that one will take the correct path through life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sometimes one must make a choice without knowing if it will be best and live with the consequences. 7. How is poetry written? (structure) A) Sentences & paragraphs. B) Sentences. C) Lines and paragraphs. D) Lines and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines and stanzas. 8. "Her skin was white as snow" is an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Algorithm. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. When a poem just briefly mentions a famous or well known person, place, or event, it is using the device named this. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. When a poem does not have a rhyme pattern or a rhythm, it is considered to be ..... A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Free verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 11. Definition:The practice of giving human traits to nonhumans in writing. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. ..... is the pattern of the end rhyme. It is designated by labeling each line with a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme. Example:ABCB, ABCB A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Structure. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 13. Synaesthesia A) The mixing and combining of sensory details. B) The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, according to their choice of words. C) A line of poetry. D) The "turning" point from the problem to the solution of a sonnet, between the octave and the sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mixing and combining of sensory details. 14. The theme of a poem or story can be defined as ..... A) Sensory details that help the reader visualize what is going on in the story. B) The events that occur in a story or poem. C) The conclusion of a poem or story. D) A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. 15. Occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. A) Internal Rhyme. B) Slant Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End Rhyme. 16. Reference to something the author assumes you know. A) Explication. B) Allusion. C) Enjambment. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 17. How fast or slow a poem is read is ..... A) Meter. B) Tone. C) Rhythm. D) Pace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pace. 18. Giving an animal, object, or idea a human quality A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. "Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow" A) Stanza. B) Blank Verse. C) Couplet. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 20. Tells a story and has a plot, character, and setting A) Ballad poem. B) Epic poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poem. ← 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