This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 268 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 268 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Nomenclature is A) Repetition of vowel sounds in words. B) Repetition of alliterative word sounds. C) Patterns or rhythm created by repeated word sounds. D) A word that sounds like the sound its describing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word that sounds like the sound its describing. 2. Which sentence shows an example of personification? A) The town was damaged by the tornado. B) People hide in cellars during a tornado watch. C) The tornado angrily tore down the street as it gobbled up rooftops and yanked up trees. D) Be careful! It's windy outside!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tornado angrily tore down the street as it gobbled up rooftops and yanked up trees. 3. Poems made up of loose groupings of words and phrases are called A) Free verse. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 4. Is a pattern of rhyme. Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Near Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 5. When a poetic line moves to the next poetic line without a syntactic break, i.e., without an end-stop. A) Cesura. B) Enjambment. C) Anaphora. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 6. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. A) Elegy. B) Free Verse. C) Epic. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 7. A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. A) Petrarchan Sonnet. B) Shakespearean Sonnet. C) Spenserian Sonnet. D) Italian Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean Sonnet. 8. Which of the following refers to the literal meaning of a word? A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 9. A unified group of lines in poetry that is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Ballad. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 10. A comparison of two objects using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Symbol. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. The overall pattern a poem follows to make a particular type of peom A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 12. How many syllables are in one line of iambic pentameter? A) 14. B) 12. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 13. What does "alliteration" mean? A) Repetition of a sound. B) Something that stands for something else. C) Comparing two unlike things using the verb "is". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of a sound. 14. Definition:exaggeration or overstatement, not meant to be taken literally. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. One line of poetry A) Ode. B) Couplet. C) Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 16. A poem that contains 10 syllables. 5 iambic feet A) Enjambment. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 17. Poetry NOT written in regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. The author is free to write lines of any length or with in number of stresses, or beats. A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Limerick. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 18. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the writer gives human qualities to a non human subject. A) Personification. B) Personification. C) Personification. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. Words at the end of separate lines rhyme. A) Near/half/impure rhyme. B) Eye rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) True rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) True rhyme. 20. A group of lines in a poem or song (a paragraph) A) Line. B) Line break. C) Syllable. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. ← 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