This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 373 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 373 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The background/circumstances/setting of a word or event that helps clarify its meaning. A) Hyphen. B) Literal and figurative. C) Lyric. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Context. 2. Beat of a poem that has a regular pattern when surveying the whole poem. A) Sound devices. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 3. A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter, usually about love of someone or something A) Limerick. B) Sonnet. C) Epigram. D) Metric foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 4. The repetitions of consonant sounds within a poem, such as Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A) Alliteration. B) Tone. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. Comparing two things using the words like or as.ex. She was as tall as a skyscraper A) Saw. B) Couplet. C) Simile. D) Course. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 6. They're strong as rocks. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 7. A song like narrative (story) poem that uses rhyme. rhythm, and repetition. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 8. What is the most common form of poetry? A) Epic. B) Rhyming. C) Lyrical. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyrical. 9. An unrhymed poem consisting of three lines, with each line having a 5-, 7-, 5-syllable pattern. A) Sonnet. B) Ode. C) Haiku. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 10. A stanza made up of two lines is called ..... A) Dimeter. B) Foot. C) Sonnet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 11. True or false:Rhyme only happens with ending consonant sounds and not ending vowel sounds. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. A reader's written comments on a poem A) Concrete. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Annotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Annotation. 13. "I just got a new set of wheels"If someone used this phrase to describe getting a new car, what kind of figurative language are they using? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Synecdoche. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem A) Homonym. B) Couplet. C) Prose. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 15. The word choice of the author. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Diction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 16. The way a poems words and lines are laid out on the page A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 17. An exaggeration A) Pun. B) Acrostic. C) Theme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. A comparison of two totally different things that does not use like or as A) Simile. B) Blank verse. C) Metaphor. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 19. She is as mean as a snake! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. Who has a chance of winning the NBA championship this year? A) Houston Rockets led by James Harden and NBA MVP this year. B) John Marshall High School. C) West Milwaukee Middle School. D) Just pick the NBA team so you can be correct and add to your test score. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Houston Rockets led by James Harden and NBA MVP this year. ← 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