This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 238 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 238 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes." A) Assonance. B) Antithesis. C) Conceit. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 2. A word that is formed by the sound associated with it A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadowing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a ..... A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Ballad. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 4. ..... is when an author repeats a word, phrase, or sentence to help create rhythm, or get across an idea, or even to maintain a certain pattern. A) Meter. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 5. The person from whose point of view the poem is told A) Speaker. B) Figurative language. C) Line. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 6. A group of lines in a poem; kind of like a paragraph A) Verse. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 7. How the author makes the reader feel while reading a poem A) Props. B) Script. C) Playwright. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 8. A spondee follows which of the following patterns of stress? A) Unstressed, unstressed. B) Stressed, stressed. C) Unstressed, stressed. D) Stressed, unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stressed, stressed. 9. Which term means the repetition of sounds at the end of words? A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 10. Which term below refers to the feelings and associations created by a word? A) Synonym. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Acronym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 11. Ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure (stories, articles, novels) A) Prose. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 12. The sound of the language. Saying something in a way so as to make the poem more effective and to make more impact. A) Mood. B) Meter. C) Figurative Language. D) Central Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 13. A stanza that has three lines. A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tercet. 14. Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. An assertion of the truth of something, typically one that is disputed or in doubt A) Diffuse. B) Claim. C) Argument. D) Blatant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claim. 16. A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem. A) Repetition. B) Story. C) Paragraph. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 17. The voice that narrates the poem A) Author. B) Personification. C) First Person. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 18. 14 line poems in which each line is 10 syllables with a paricular rhyme scheme A) Imagery. B) Sonnet. C) Free verse. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 19. Giving human like characteristics to nonhuman objects. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Tone. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? The sweet, juicy strawberries reminded me of my childhood. A) Taste. B) Hear. C) Smell. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taste. ← 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