This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 310 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 310 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse. All spoken word has a ..... formed by stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 2. A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or toward an audience A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Couplet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 3. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:idioms A) Exaggerated statement to highten effect. B) Words that mimic sounds. C) Implied comparison between 2 unlike things-NO like or as. D) Expressions that can't be translated directly into another language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expressions that can't be translated directly into another language. 4. What is the definition of irony? A) The opposite of what is expected to happen, seen, or be heard. B) The attitude of the writer. C) The dictionary definition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The opposite of what is expected to happen, seen, or be heard. 5. 'Then growling it slunk away' The poet is describing a hurricane. What is this an example of? A) Sibilance. B) Pathetic fallacy. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathetic fallacy. 6. The use of sounds, words, or phrases or whole lines more than once in a poem; used to emphasize A) Repetition. B) Refrain. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. Our feet squished in the mud. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. An object that is used to represent an idea. A) Hyperbole. B) Theme. C) Mood. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 9. A comparison of two or more things without using "like" or "as" . Example:Jeannie is a fountain of knowledge. A) Simile. B) Methaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Methaphor. 10. A unit in poetry that consists of any words arranged in one row A) Poem. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 11. Lamb-innocence, Dove-Peace or Eagle-America is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Symbol. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 12. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost A) Symbol. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 13. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem is called a ..... A) Poem. B) Imagery. C) Refrain. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 14. What is a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem referred to as? A) Limerick. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quatrain. 15. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Connotation. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 16. The AUTHOR'S attitude towards a subject A) Tone. B) Irony. C) Figurative Language. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 17. Joan groaned in a low tone A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. "My heart's a stereo." The kind of figurative language used here is ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. A traditional Japanese poem about nature; three lines with a total of 17 syllables A) Concrete. B) Narrative. C) Lyric. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 20. A four-line stanza or poem. A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain. C) Couplet. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. ← 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