This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 289 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 289 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)? A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Poetry. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 2. What is it called when a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting a unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable? A) Soliloquy. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic Pentameter. 3. The repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words. A) Rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 4. Which poetic element is a reference to a popular person, place, story, or thing? A) Noun. B) Rhyme. C) Allusion. D) Shoutout. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 5. "The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of: A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 7. A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The ice sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbird wings. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. "A woman ..... can do no good but in childbirth. But a woman can do evil. She can do evil." ~~ MEDEA A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 10. Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash" backward and tell what happened at an earlier time A) Epithet. B) Flashback. C) Homeric simile. D) Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 11. Giving human qualities and traits to non-human object is ..... A) Figuratively Speaking. B) Personification. C) Poetry. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. The piano sang a mournful song. A) Personification. B) NOT Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Pairs of rhyming words get labeled with the same letter of the alphabet. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 14. A concrete poem is written in ..... A) Short lines. B) The shape of its topic. C) Many stanzas. D) Rhyming lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shape of its topic. 15. A poem written in honor of someone who had died A) Elegy. B) Imagery. C) Ballad. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 16. Lines of poetry arranged in groups A) Form. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 17. How a say a word (stressed and unstressed). Is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Meter. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 18. A question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Meter. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 19. The poet is A) The person who writes the poem. B) The person who reads the poem. C) The person in the poem. D) I'm not sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The person who writes the poem. 20. This term means the representation through language of sense experience A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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