This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 249 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 249 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Imagery is language that creates a picture. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. The main message of a poem is: A) The theme or lesson in a poem. B) What the poet does when reading. C) How you feel after reading the poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The theme or lesson in a poem. 3. Poems that don't rhyme or have a rhythm (beat) to it. A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Acrostic. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 4. What technique shows the repetition of the same sound? A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. A poem about loss or death. A) Narrative. B) Elegy. C) Free verse. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 6. Mom was a busy beaver as she prepared for the holiday party. What are the words in blue an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. What is is a verse, a line or a group of lines that repeats at regular intervals? A) Verse. B) Refrain. C) Irony. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 8. Slows the reader and brings attention to individual words and phrases A) Stanza. B) End rhyme. C) Line breaks. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line breaks. 9. What words do you look at to find out the rhyme scheme? A) The very first word in each line. B) The middle word in each line. C) The very last word in each line. D) The last word in every other line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The very last word in each line. 10. What kind of poem is the following example from Crossover? "Hustle digGrind pushRun fastChange pivotChase pullAim shootWork smartLive smarterPlay hard Practice harder." A) Ode. B) Play-by-Play. C) Text. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text. 11. Rhymes that appear within lines A) Internal rhyme. B) Lyric. C) Meter. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 12. What is the definition of allusion? A) The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. B) A comparison between two things that does not use any helping words. C) The repetition of vowel sounds. D) A brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. 13. The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences in a passage. This includes word order, length, and structure of sentences A) Scansion. B) Meter. C) Syntax. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 14. A comparison of two unlike things. A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them without using the words "like" or "as" to compare the two objects. A) Similarly. B) Metaphor. C) Comparison. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What is a MAIN difference between poetry and prose? A) Poetry is straightforward and prose is more artistic way. B) Prose rhymes all the time and poetry doesn't. C) Poetry is in line format and prose is in paragraph format. D) Prose is in line format and poetry is in paragraph format. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry is in line format and prose is in paragraph format. 17. A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Limerick. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 18. A saying that has been proven true over time A) Adage. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adage. 19. The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem/song/piece of work that is represented by letters of the alphabet (ex:ABAB CDCD EE) is the poem's A) Rhyme scheme. B) End rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Sight rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 20. Is this sentence a symbol or imagery?The putrid rise of garbage stench filled the air? A) Symbol. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. ← 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