This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 241 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 241 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are groups of lines in a poem called? A) Lines. B) Paragraphs. C) Stanzas. D) Rhyming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 2. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of ONLY one character. A) Third Person Point of View. B) Third Person Limited Point of View. C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. D) Third Person Objective Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third Person Limited Point of View. 3. The voice of the story or the narrorator A) Sonnet. B) Speaker. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 4. What type of figurative language in this stanza? "Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen Bells!What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"- "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. ..... sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde A) American. B) English. C) German. D) Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petrarchan. 6. There was a young lady of Nice, Who insisted on bathing in grease.She slid through the houseTormenting her spouseTil he hid in the oven for peace.This is an example of- A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Limerick. D) Joke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 7. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme A) Haiku. B) Cinquain. C) Free verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 8. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings A) Sarcasm. B) Satire. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sarcasm. 9. Based on photos submitted on picture day, there are ..... students in the freshman class. A) 60. B) 63. C) 66. D) 70. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 66. 10. A break or punctuation used to emphasize meaning. Usually this is the period or comma at the end of a line A) Cesura. B) Allusion. C) Verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 11. The person who is understood to be speaking (or thinking or writing) a particular work. A) Metaphor. B) Similarly. C) Persona. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona. 12. Which two types of figurative langauge is represented in line 4 of the poem?How much will you pay for an extra dayThe clockman asked the child.Not one penny. the answer cameFor my days are as many as smiles. A) Simile/metaphor. B) Simile/hyperbole. C) Metaphorhyperbole. D) Personificationhyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile/hyperbole. 13. Literal meaning of a word A) Connotation. B) Figurative language. C) Denotation. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 14. The repetition of the BEGINNING sound. A) Rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. "Enthusiastic, gloomy, optimistic, cheerful, sarcastic, humorous, indignant, illuminating, admiring" are all examples of: A) Tone. B) Rhymes. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 16. A prose poem is distinguished by what structural quality? A) Justified margins. B) Double spacing. C) Paragraph symbols. D) Completely set in quotation marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Justified margins. 17. Epigraph A) A brief ending no more than 4 lines long. B) A small book of about 24-50 pages. C) Close repetition of vowel sounds. D) A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section. 18. A close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Villanelle. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 19. Which of the following compares two things using like or as? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Theme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. The theme of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes is A) Hard Work Pays Off. B) The "American Dream" isn't everyone's reality. C) Bad Food Spoils over time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "American Dream" isn't everyone's reality. ← 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