This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 235 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 235 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Form of literary device used in poetry, creates imagery for the reader. A) Mood. B) Voice. C) Poetic Device. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic Device. 2. What does the following poem symbolize? An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! A) Food. B) Femininity. C) Pregnancy. D) Masculinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pregnancy. 3. The feeling the poet creates/how the reader feels is ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Pace. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 4. A genre of literature that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a specific form-using lines and stanzas A) Poem. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 5. A stanza of four lines that has a regular rhyming pattern A) Quatrain. B) Free verse. C) Haiku. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 6. Define "rhyme." A) Comparing two things using "like" or "as". B) The repetition of a letter. C) The repetition of an ending sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of an ending sound. 7. Words or phrases that are repeated A) Meter. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 8. Give a nonhuman object human characteristics. A) Meter. B) Figurative language. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. "The musical quality created by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry" is called ..... A) Music. B) Rhythm. C) Beat. D) Tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 10. A poem form that does not have a regular pattern of rhythm and may not rhyme, may use unconventional punctuation, spelling, and grammar A) Traditional form. B) Haiku. C) Organic form. D) Rap song. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organic form. 11. An extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison-takes places over an entire passage or poem A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Conceit. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conceit. 12. Which of the following is NOT an example of metaphor? A) Shelly likes fruit,. B) The world is a stage. C) My teacher is a dragon. D) The classroom is a zoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelly likes fruit,. 13. The refrain usually helps to emphasize the poem's ..... A) Assonance. B) Verse. C) Rhyme. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 14. The message of the poem A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 15. Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. Poet's message, and how is he or she communicating feelings A) Poem content. B) Poem form. C) Poem rhythm. D) Poem format. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem content. 17. A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar. A) Apostrophe. B) Contrast. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 18. A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as (saying one things IS another). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. What type of poetry is this the definition for?Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 20. Giving human characteristics to objects. A) Personification. B) Free Verse. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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