This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 324 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 324 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of lines forming the basic recording metric unit in a poem A) Speaker. B) Stanza. C) Symbol. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 2. A hyperbole is ..... A) A comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as". B) A extreme exaggeration. C) A comparison using "like" or "as". D) Giving human qualities to an inanimate object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A extreme exaggeration. 3. Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect or emphasis A) Ballad. B) Stanza. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 4. An unrhymed three-line lyric poem, usually focused on images from nature, in which lines 1 and 3 have five syllables and line 2 has seven syllables A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Formal verse. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 5. The sun smiled on the angry clouds. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. A word or phrase which means something other than what is said. Ex. (It's raining cats and dogs) A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 7. What is the purpose of "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, " by Gordan Lightfoot? A) To tell about how much he loves the sea. B) To tell about an event in history. C) To tell about a friend of his named Edmund. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To tell about an event in history. 8. What form of figurative language repeats the same beginning consonant sound in a line? A) Alliteration. B) Symbol. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Couplets A) A comparison of two things using like or as. B) Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme or meter. C) The repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems. D) Also known as sensory language; appeals to the 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems. 10. Analysis of line length, broken up into syllabic "feet" A) Unstressed. B) Stressed. C) Meter. D) Run-on line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 11. Genre; creative text written in verse, meter; uses creative, figurative and sensory language A) Syllable. B) Symbol. C) Prose. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 12. A phrase, line, or stanza that is repeated throughout the poem is called a ..... A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Refrain. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 13. To make reference to something else in history, society, or literature. A) Allusion. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 14. 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 warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life.How many stanzas does the poem have above? A) This poem has 1 stanza. B) This poem has 4 stanzas. C) This poem has 2 stanzas. D) This poem has 8 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This poem has 2 stanzas. 15. True or False:an ANECDOTE is a short and interesting story, or an amusing event, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. ..... is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 17. What is:a question that the author poses that is not meant to be answered aloud? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Pondering. C) Rhetorical Device. D) Rhetorical Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 18. When a poem has lines ending in words that rhyme. A) Inside rhyme. B) External rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 19. A lyrical poem..... A) Captures a moment or feeling (and can be a song). B) Tells about a funny moment. C) NEVER has rhyming words. D) Is a conversation between two or more people in a book, play, or movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Captures a moment or feeling (and can be a song). 20. Which of the following is NOT a type of poem? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Eulogy. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eulogy. ← 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