This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 291 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 291 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A proposal, remark, hint, designed to bring out the opinions or purposes of others: A) Posterizing. B) Acclaimed. C) Outdone. D) Feelers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feelers. 2. The repetition found at the beginning of consecutive (one after another) phrases, verses, sentences, etc. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 3. Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow. The lines above A) Contain personification. B) Are a heroic couplet. C) Exemplify blank verse. D) Use a metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are a heroic couplet. 4. What is another name for the narrator of a poem? A) Character. B) Poet. C) Author. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 5. Words have the same beginning sound. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. A distinct numbered group of lines within a poem A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 7. Harsh, discordant sounds (k, t, g, b, d, p, ch, sh, s) in words A) Contraphony. B) Cacophony. C) Disphony. D) Euphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. 8. A long speech delivered by a single character and directed at other characters onstage. A) Speaker. B) Monologue. C) Speech. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 9. Which of the following uses "omniscient narrator" point of view? A) Today is not my day. B) Your future is as blinding as the sun. C) Luke couldn't tell what Kayla was thinking. D) Lisa and Manuel did not yet know what loomed ahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lisa and Manuel did not yet know what loomed ahead. 10. A poem that has few or no rhyming words and no particular pattern is known as a ..... A) Lyric poem. B) Haiku. C) Cinquain. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem. 11. An extreme exaggeration is ..... A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 12. Using overstatement to show that something is important A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 13. Assonance is the repeating of vowel sounds in nearby words. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. This is an example of:There is a confirmed rumor spreading the hallways. A) Paradox. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 15. How do you differentiate between lyric and narrative poems? A) You don't, it is too hard. B) Lyric poems tend to convey emotions in first person while narrative poems propel the plot. C) Lyric poems are sung and narrative poems are read at a certain tempo. D) Only songs are lyric poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poems tend to convey emotions in first person while narrative poems propel the plot. 16. Is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. A free verse poem..... A) Does not follow rules. B) Tells a story. C) Captures a moment or feeling (like a song). D) Happens when words have the same ending sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does not follow rules. 18. The unit of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row is called- A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Lyric poem. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 19. A two-lined stanza A) Quatrain. B) Three meters. C) Dimeter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 20. What is it called when a metrical foot has an unstressed, stressed pattern? A) Anapestic. B) Spondaic. C) Trochaic. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic. ← 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