This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 231 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 231 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph in a book A) Extended Metaphor. B) Sound Devises. C) Sonnet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 2. Describes one thing as if it is another A) Simile. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 3. The distance between the left and right edges of a text block A) Line break. B) Stanza. C) Line length. D) Indentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line length. 4. The text that appears on one line A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Line. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 5. Lines of poetry that form a division in the poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 6. A repetition device where the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses or sentences A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 7. A long, elaborate comparison that often continues for a number of lines. A) Invocation. B) Epithet. C) Myth. D) Epic simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic simile. 8. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love youTill Africa and China meetAnd the river jumps over the mountainAnd the salmon sing in the street" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. Repetition of an ending phrase A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 10. A poet who was paid to commemorate the achievements of Medieval noblemen was called a(n) A) Auditor. B) Allusion. C) Freelance writer. D) Bard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bard. 11. Repitition means ..... A) The action of repeating something that has already been said or written. B) The stanza that keeps on repeating after some lines in a poem, see often in songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The action of repeating something that has already been said or written. 12. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. A) Acrostic. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 13. Poems that don't have a regular rhythm or sound A) Form. B) Alliteration. C) Free verse. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 14. The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbolic. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. Definition:the use of figurative language to paint a vivid picture A) Haiku. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 16. A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Poetic feet. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 17. What is the definition of caesura? A) The repetition of the initial consonant sounds. B) An extended metaphor. C) The use of words which sound like they mean. D) A pause within a line of verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A pause within a line of verse. 18. ..... is a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Figure of speech. C) Conflict. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech. 19. A word that sounds like the sound it is describing A) Onomatopoeia. B) Stanza. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. Author of, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" A) Langston Hughes. B) James Weldon Johnson. C) Augusta Savage. D) Jason Reynolds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. ← 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