This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 228 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 228 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is another word for a tongue twister? A) Riddle. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. A passage that contains artistic, vivid language and is often imaginative A) Poem. B) Poet. C) Rhythm. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 3. The speaker in the poem is the author A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. A long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 5. A rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 6. What is a comparison of two unlike things NOT using the words like or as? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. ..... include word sounds, such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and repetition, to emphasize particular words or ideas. A) Poems. B) Letters. C) Memoirs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poems. 8. The framework or organization of a work of literature A) Theme. B) Structure. C) Tone. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structure. 9. Which sentence show the use of sensory language? A) A happy dog is a good dog. B) It is one million days until my birthday. C) Is twelve plus thirteen twenty-six?. D) The freezing cold winds burned my face as I was skiing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The freezing cold winds burned my face as I was skiing. 10. A group of lines that might be thought of as a "paragraph" in prose; A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 11. "The air is like a butterfly" A) Methaphor. B) Simile. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. What is "colorful, picturesque language" ? A) Narrative. B) Theme. C) Concrete. D) Vivid Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vivid Language. 13. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Punch. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. The repetition of identical ending syllables in different words (usually at the end of a line) My trainin the rain. How plain. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Mood. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 15. The way in which the author approaches the work emotionally A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Style. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 16. When a poet uses negative space or the arrangement of the lines of the poem to create a picture or symbol to add meaning is known as ..... A) Form. B) Line. C) Diction. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 17. A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. A) Repetition. B) Ballad. C) Meter. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 18. What is the literary term that refers to the central, deeper meaning of a written work? A) Figurative language. B) Form. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 19. Rising meter A) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. B) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. C) The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. D) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. 20. Create a picture in your mind with words A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. ← 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