This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 286 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 286 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poetry free from consistency in rhyme, meter, or line length A) Fixed verse. B) Open form. C) Concrete poetry. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Open form. 2. Rhymes at the ends of lines A) Triplet. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) End rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhymes. 3. A group of verses in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 4. The comparison of two unlike things that share something in common without using the words "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. "I have a ton of chores to do" is an example of a A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. What is descriptive language that appeals to the five senses? A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. The author's attitude toward the subject matter A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. A) Sestet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean sonnet. 9. Draws the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. 'The story jumped off the page." "The light danced on the surface of the water." A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Refrain. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. A figure of speech where one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another, without using "like" or "as" . A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Define Allusion A) The attitude or feeling of the poem expressed by the poet. B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. C) A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse. D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. 13. What is the definition of repetition in poetry? A) The feeling words give you. B) Descriptive words that help the reader picture what is happening. C) Repeating the same words or phrases. D) Rhythmical patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repeating the same words or phrases. 14. A stanza or poem that has 4 lines involves different rhyme schemes. A) ABC. B) Quatrain. C) Concrete. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 15. Bzzz, Pop, Crash, Bang, Pow, are examples of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Lyric. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 16. 2 or more lines of poetry that form one of the divisions of a poem, usually the same length & following the same pattern of matter & rhyme A) Refrain. B) Shift. C) Stanza. D) Couplet (Rhyming Couplet). E) Tercet (Triplet). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 17. Groups of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and rhythm and are separated into sections. A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. Something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else A) Nomenclature. B) Metaphor. C) Symbol/Symbolism. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol/Symbolism. 19. ..... is bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings. A) Synecdoche. B) Understatement. C) Sarcasm. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 20. The wind whistled. A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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