This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 334 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 334 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Descriptive writing that appeals to any of our five senses A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 2. How many points is the Poetry Portfolio worth? A) 100. B) 125. C) 150. D) 175. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 150. 3. Southwest Tip-off was cancelled in 2020 because of covid issues. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as. A) Stanza. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem belowTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. A) FATHER. B) THE FATHER. C) Oybb. D) ABBAC. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FATHER. 6. English sonnets are divided into A) 4 quatrains only. B) 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. C) An octave and a sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. 7. What type of figurative language compares without using "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line A) Stanza. B) Slant rhyme. C) Quatrain. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 9. What is a division of lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme? A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Metaphor. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 10. What is word choice in writing? A) The intended target group for a message. B) The basic rhythmic structure in verse. C) The author's thoughtful use of precise vocabulary. D) The distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author's thoughtful use of precise vocabulary. 11. A caesura is a pause caused by punctuation ..... A) At the beginning of a line. B) In the middle of a line. C) At the end of a line. D) At the end of a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the middle of a line. 12. Contradictory terms such as jumbo shrimp A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 13. My English teacher is older than the hills. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. Beagles are medium-sized membersof the hound family. Beagles generallymake good pets because they are intelligent, good-natured, and good with children. Beaglesare also quite playful and need a great dealof exercise. A) Problem and solution. B) Description. C) Cause and effect. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description. 15. A word that mimics the sound being made; a sound word. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 16. The cyclist was two tired to win the race. A) Pun. B) Allusion. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 17. ..... is the musical quality created by the meter. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) The beat. D) The pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 18. An absurd or contradictory statement that can be proven true A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 19. The definition of the term "alliteration" is ..... A) Descriptive language that uses the five senses. B) How the speaker feels about their subject. C) Words that begin with the same sound near each other. D) The use of a sound, word, or phrase multiple times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words that begin with the same sound near each other. 20. Octameter A) The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. B) Poetry that does not ryhme or does not have a regular meter. C) A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Often words at the end of lines at first seem like they will rhyme but are not pronounced in perfect rhyme. D) A line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet. ← 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