This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 294 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 294 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many stanza's are in this poem? A) 5. B) 1. C) 0. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 2. Which is an example of a synecdoche? A) Using the 5 senses to convey an image to the reader. B) Repeating the same consonant sound. C) Using the word sails to refer to the actual boat. D) Using the phrase old man to refer to your father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using the word sails to refer to the actual boat. 3. Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to: A) Entertain, describe, inform, persuade. B) Dance across the page. C) Entertain, describe, bore, persuade. D) Describe, persuade, entertain, exasperate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entertain, describe, inform, persuade. 4. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ..... " is an example of what? A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. Compares two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing A) Metaphor. B) Formal verse. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. A three-line line Japanese verse that has a 5-7-5 syllable line construction is a: A) Couplett. B) Ballad. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 7. A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Anapest. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 8. Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals A) Personification. B) Speaker. C) Narrative. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. This word describes a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound in a poem-the "beat." A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Song. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 10. This is when you read a poem and put its meaning into your own words A) Interpretation. B) Symbolism. C) Poetic licenses. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paraphrasing. 11. Popular sayings that cannot be understood on their own. A) Adage. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 12. One single line of text in a poem. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Paragraph. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 13. The use of a symbol to represent something other than itself Creates a mood or strong feelings to help the reader understand A) Rhythm. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 14. A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics A) Personification (Personification). B) Naming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification (Personification). 15. "I ask them to take a poem."What poetic term is being shown here? A) Speaker. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 16. What type of figurative language is shown? She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. What is an ode? A) A lyric poem marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings towards the subject. B) A narrative poem. C) An epic poem about a hero. D) A type of rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lyric poem marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings towards the subject. 18. Using like or as. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. End-stopped line A) A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. B) A phrase used to encourage someone to make the most of the present, rather than the looking to the past or future. C) The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds. D) A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark. 20. A particular grouping of lines in a poem-also called a verse. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Stanza. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. ← 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