This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 270 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 270 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The message of The Three Little Pigs is that hard work always pays off. This is called the ..... of the story. A) Symbol. B) Theme. C) Plot. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 2. Comparing two things without using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. What type of poetry is this:An open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.? A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Ballad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 4. You can hear me, but you're not listening to me. A) Paradox. B) Synecdoche. C) Litotes. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 5. Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs A) Heroic couplet. B) Tragic flaw. C) Monologue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heroic couplet. 6. The pattern of rhyming in a poem; to describe the pattern, each line is assigned a letter, and lines that rhyme are given the same letter, e.g., abab A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Symbol. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 7. A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem A) Meter. B) Structure. C) Verse. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 8. Author of a poem A) Author. B) Writer. C) Poet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 9. The author's feelings about their subject A) Tone. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 10. Contradictory terms that appear in conjunction. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 11. This is an example of:The bubbly bubbles broke when they got to the branches. A) Pun. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 12. Which type of poem is humorous (funny)? A) Haiku. B) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 13. When the last word at the end of two or more lines rhyme. A) Near rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Eye rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 14. What is an example of personification? A) He is as strong as a lion. B) The car danced on the icy road. C) Noah has the heart of a lion. D) She sells seashells by the seashore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The car danced on the icy road. 15. Rhyming words ..... A) Have the same sound at the beginning of words. B) Have the same sound at the end of words. C) Sound the same but are spelled differently. D) Must be in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have the same sound at the end of words. 16. A creative form of writing that follows a pattern and shows emotion. A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Nonfiction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 17. A poet's choice of words A) Diction. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 18. The term Poetry Portfolio is an example of ..... A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. Prosody A) A phrase or line recurring at intervals. (N.b. the definition does not require that a refrain include the entire line, nor that it recur at regular intervals, though refrains often are and do.). B) The patterns of stresses, unstressed syllables, and pauses in language. Regularly repeating rhythm is called meter. C) The study of versification, i.e. the form-meter, rhyme, rhythm, stanzaic form, sound patterns-into which poets put language to make it verse rather than something else. D) The identification and analysis of poetic rhythm and meter. To "scan" a line of poetry is to mark its stressed and unstressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of versification, i.e. the form-meter, rhyme, rhythm, stanzaic form, sound patterns-into which poets put language to make it verse rather than something else. 20. Analyzing lines of poetry for accented and unaccented syllables to figure othe the meter is: A) Alliteration. B) Scanning. C) Refrain. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scanning. ← 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