This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 315 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 315 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What two words does a simile use to compare two unlike things? A) Like and the. B) Like and as. C) As and the. D) As and how. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like and as. 2. Scansion A) Scanning a poem to determine rhythm. B) Quickly reading a poem. C) Words that almost rhyme, but do not really. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scanning a poem to determine rhythm. 3. From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled ..... A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. A narrative poem..... A) Tells a story. B) Captures a moment or feeling (and can be a song). C) Always tells us about a funny moment. D) NEVER has rhyming words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tells a story. 5. Which is an example of rhyme? A) Bat, Cat, Bike. B) Bat, Cat, Mat. C) Blue, Crow, Moon. D) Blue, Water, Soap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bat, Cat, Mat. 6. A poem of only two lines A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Tercet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 7. Stanza with 2 lines A) Couplet. B) Triplet. C) Sestet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 8. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmth until it sang of joyand love and life. How many lines in the poem above? A) This poem has 1 line. B) This poem has 4 lines. C) This poem has 2 lines. D) This poem has 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) This poem has 8 lines. 9. The repetition of similar sounds and the pattern produced in a poem, usually marked by letters:abba. A) Form. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 10. A poem which has a series of rigid requirements, usually concerning meter and rhyme, and has a name, is called: A) Free verse. B) Closed form. C) Fixed form. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed form. 11. Verse that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and is more like everyday speech A) Stanza. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 12. Euphony A) A term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. B) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). C) Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected. D) Pleasant, harmonious sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pleasant, harmonious sound. 13. What is simile in poetry? A) A comparison between two unlike ideas. B) Figure of speech, comparison using like or as. C) A detailed comparison that extends through multiple lines. D) A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech, comparison using like or as. 14. Which of the following best define poetry? A) A composition in verse. B) Has highly developed form. C) Uses heightened language and rhythm. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. The repetition of similar sounds. A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Lines. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 16. Language that appeals to the senses (taste, sight, touch, hear, smell) is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 17. A comparison that shows similarities between two things that are otherwise dissimilar A) Assonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 18. Poems that require a fixed structure and pattern A) Closed. B) Free Verse. C) Fixed. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Closed. 19. Sound words-BAM! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Adjectives. C) Theme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. A verse of a poem; a group of lines A) Meter. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme scheme. E) Rhythm. 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