This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 322 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 322 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Archaic language is ..... A) A modern language. B) Words and phrases that convey a meaning beyond their literal meaning. C) A new language that will be spoken in the future. D) Words that were once commonly used in the past but are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words that were once commonly used in the past but are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date. 2. Writing that uses sensory words (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch) help form a picture in the reader's head ..... this is known as: A) Immoral. B) Impossible. C) Imagination. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 3. A monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage. Soliloquies allow dramatists to communicate information about a character's state of mind, hopes, and intentions directly to an audience. A) Sestet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 4. Repetition of the same consonant sound in a series of words, usually at the beginning of the words A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure A) Free verse. B) Ode. C) Haiku. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 6. Is is the way people in a certain region speak that is unique to that region. A) Dialogue. B) Dialect. C) Slang. D) Accent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 7. What is an allusion in poetry? A) A comparison between two unlike ideas. B) The dictionary definition of a word. C) Reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or art. D) Ideas or meanings associated with a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or art. 8. Which term means the way a reader feels about the poem? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 9. The author takes a single metaphor and employs it at length, using various subjects, images, ideas and situations. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Personification. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 10. A poem that takes a certain shape to convey its meaning. The placement and design of the words is just as important as the words. A) Fixed verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Figurative. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concrete poetry. 11. Lines A) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. B) The amount of words in a poem. C) A play on words using homophones, homonyms, and homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. 12. An 8 line stanza A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 13. A cow says "Moo" "tic-tac" , the hands of the clock. A) Metaphor. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 14. Imagery and word pictures are similar. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. A statement that appears to contradict itself A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 16. A comparison between two unlike things-does not use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. The rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds A) Perfect. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Slant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant. 18. What is the definition of "apostrophe" in poetry? A) An address to an absent or imaginary person. B) The repetition of similar vowels in successive words. C) Passing reference or indirect mention to something outside of the text. D) A recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An address to an absent or imaginary person. 19. This is a poem which has storytelling as its main purpose A) Ode. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative. 20. Which term describes the "paragraphs" in a poem? A) Stanzas. B) Rhymes. C) Meters. D) Forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. ← 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