This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 248 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 248 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that is shaped like a diamond, and the words describe opposite ideas is called a ..... A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Diamante. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diamante. 2. The pattern of a rhyme in a poem A) Rhyme scheme. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 3. Major idea or lesson learned A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Plot. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. Where does end rhyme occur? A) At the end of lines. B) At the beginning of lines. C) In the middle of lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the end of lines. 5. A five line poem with a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme (AABBA). A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Limerick. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 6. 4 lines A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain. C) Octave. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 7. Emotional response evoked by a word. Can have positive or negative responses. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 8. The Cyclops's speared eye hissed and popped. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. The repeating of a word, sounds, or phrases to add rhythm or to focus on an idea A) Repetition. B) Chorus. C) Refrain. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 10. 14 line poem A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 11. Poem that is a story, with conflict, setting etc. Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot is a ..... A) Lyric Poem. B) Narrative Poem. C) Sonnet Poem. D) Haiku Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative Poem. 12. ..... is not the main idea of the text, but the author's intent for writing the piece A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Author's Purpose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's Purpose. 13. Figurative language is used only in poetry A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Both boys and girls basketball teams open the season against the same opponent. Who? A) Wheaton. B) Purdy. C) Exeter. D) Verona. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exeter. 15. Bed Bugs Bite Businessmen The threat of bed bugs is now seen as one of the biggest hazards to business travel as the unwelcome pests have become a growing problem for the hotels of major cities. "I miss the old days when it was just the rats and cockroaches that we had to worry about, " one longtime life insurance salesman said wistfully. What type of figurative language is used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. The repetition of usually unstressed similar endings in proximal words, as in the phrase "rising with the dawning morning" is known as A) Instress. B) Homoioteleuton. C) Spurious. D) Jump rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homoioteleuton. 17. A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem A) Line. B) Paragraph. C) Poem. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 18. Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. What poem uses figurative language in a particularly structured way to express an idea? A) Ode. B) Elegy. C) Aubade. D) Cinquain. E) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cinquain. 20. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. ← 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