This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 240 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 240 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word means a poem used to show the differences between two opposites and uses a specific pattern? A) Diamante. B) Quatrain. C) Imagery. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diamante. 2. The attitude of the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character:serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Diction. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 3. A four line poem that can have a variety of rhyme schemes. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quatrain. 4. A Japanese poem written in three lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Poem. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme scheme/pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 5. The process of determining the metrical rhythm in poetry A) Scansion. B) Inference. C) Consonance. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scansion. 6. Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect A) Hyperbole. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. A group of lines or paragraphs that make up a poem- A) Stanza. B) Group. C) Line. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 8. Poetry written in highly musical language that expresses the thoughts, observations, and feelings of a single speaker A) Lyric poetry. B) Epic poetry. C) Alliteration. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric poetry. 9. "Andy always eats apples and asparagus" is an example of which type of sound device? A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Figurative Language. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. The speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/herperspective (uses "I" ). A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 11. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scene. A) Concrete. B) Ballads. C) Limericks. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limericks. 12. A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines. (AABA) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 13. Japanese 3 line poems; follows syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5; about nature A) Haiku. B) Alliteration. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 14. "Each lock lifting me higher, like a 747, ZOOM ZOOM" A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 15. Which of the following is a simile? A) When I squeezed the bag of chips, it went POP and chips were everywhere. B) The kitten is as soft as a cashmere sweater. C) He is a nightmare to deal with. D) Sally sell seashells by the seashore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The kitten is as soft as a cashmere sweater. 16. How many foster kittens does Ms. Cattell have right now? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 17. "two" successive rhyming lines. A) Couplet. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 18. A beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in words A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) Stanza break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. Already brushing off the dustis an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 20. Pastoral A) A lyric poem that laments the dead. B) A poem of a single speaker who expresses his thoughts and feelings. C) Literature about country life. D) A style of writing that ridicules human weaknesses to promote social reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literature about country life. ← 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