This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 278 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 278 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many lines is an Octave? A) 2. B) 4. C) 6. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8. 2. Lacks strict structure; has no regular meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza pattern A) Free verse. B) Lyric. C) Concrete. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 3. "Love is like fire" is an example of which form of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. Shorter in length than a ballad; can sing or chant; praises a person, event, or thing A) Ode. B) Speaker. C) Lineation. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 5. Which two terms help out poets when making their poems fit a rhyme scheme without sacrificing their depth of meaning? A) Slant rhyme and Metaphor. B) Assonance and alliteration. C) Assonance and Slant rhyme. D) Synecdoche and hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance and Slant rhyme. 6. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem, creating a musical quality A) Hyperbole. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 7. A poem that doesn't follow a specific form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas A) Odes. B) Sonnets. C) Haikus. D) Free verse poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poetry. 8. When sounds of words are similar. Often, the end words have this in common. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 9. A kind of metaphor in which human qualities are given to something that is not human A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Speaker. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. Rime scheme A) A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. B) A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls. C) Poetry that does not ryhme or does not have a regular meter. D) The riming pattern found in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The riming pattern found in a poem. 11. The atmosphere of a literary piece, or how the reader feels about it A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Voice. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 12. The repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of words that do not rhyme and precede by different vowel sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 13. Words that appeal to the senses (descriptive words) A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Couplet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. "I have seen the highest mountains as well as the lowest valleys", he said. is an example of: A) Speaker. B) Author. C) Narrator. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 15. In most traditional poetry, the rhyme is organised into patterns. This is called A) Meter. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Repetition. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 16. A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar (comparing two things without using like or as). A) Couplet. B) Verse. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 18. Words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 19. Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities A) Anaphora. B) Unrelated. C) Allegory. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 20. Lake is Like a Mirror Hikers who recently visited Moose Lake noticed that the still water created a reflective surface. "The lake really was like an enormous mirror, " said one hiker. "It sure was!" agreed another. What is the figurative language used? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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