This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 348 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 348 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Shakespearean sonnet with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Romeo And Julliet. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Personification. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 2. Any device that creates a picture in the reader's mind is called A) A metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) A picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. A group of lines (similar to a paragraph) in a poem is called a ..... A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Enjambment. D) Lineation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 4. This is a word whose sound imitates its meaning, like "Buzz." A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 5. A type of poem that praises and celebrates its subject A) Ode. B) Lyric poem. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 6. Giving human qualities and abilities to an object or idea A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. Written and spoken language that is not poetry:sentences, paragraphs, stories, chapters, etc. A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Couplet. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose. 8. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. A) Tercet. B) Quatrain. C) Cinquain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 9. A word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. What is the correct term for the following definition? This is language that appeals to the senses; it helps us see, smell, and feel the scene. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. A sound device commonly associated with poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 12. Extreme exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect A) Rhyme scheme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. What has no fixed rhyme but has a consistent meter A) Free Verse. B) Blank Verse. C) Couplet. D) Assonant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank Verse. 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 lines does the poem have 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. 15. Last night, while I lay thinking here, Some Whatifs crawled inside my earAnd pranced and partied all night longAnd sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I'm dumb in school?Whatif they've closed the swimming pool ..... What do you notice being used here? A) Free verse. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. What is the purpose of using metaphors in poetry? A) To create vivid imagery and convey complex ideas. B) To provide a literal interpretation of the poem. C) To make the poem sound more musical and rhythmic. D) To confuse the reader and make the poem difficult to understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create vivid imagery and convey complex ideas. 17. A short group of words, usually not a sentence EX: "down the road" A) Phrases (a phrase). B) Room (extrophe). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phrases (a phrase). 18. What is a poem's stanza? A) The row of words. B) A group of lines repeating the poem's pattern. C) The rhyming pattern. D) Rhyming of words inside the line and at the end of the line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of lines repeating the poem's pattern. 19. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Snow makes whiteness where it falls.The bushes look like popcorn balls.And places where I always play, Look like somewhere else today. By Marie Louise Allen A) Father. B) AABB. C) BBAA. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABB. 20. The voice that speaks the words of a poem, not necessarily the same person as the poet A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Speaker/persona. D) Image/imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker/persona. ← 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