This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 380 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 380 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A long narrative poem focusing on the deeds of a hero is called a(n) A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic poem. 2. Giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to something that is not alive A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. Perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, terminal pararhyme and terminal semirhyme are all types of? A) End rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Couplet. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 4. Poetry with regular rhythm (almost always iambic pentameter) but no rhyme A) Haiku. B) Blank verse. C) Limerick. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 5. Which word means lines that have a similar sound at the end of the line? A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 6. A poem that tells a story with a plot, characters, setting, and a theme is called: A) Lyrical. B) Analogy. C) Narrative. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 7. Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the end of lines of verse A) Rhythm. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 8. Suggested meanings of a word or phrase. The meanings & feelings that have become associated with the word, in addition to its explicit meaning. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Figurative language. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 9. Anaphora is A) Repetition in the beginning of sentence clauses. B) Repetition at the end of sentence clauses. C) Emphasis on sensory detail. D) Recognition of similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition in the beginning of sentence clauses. 10. Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays this way. A) Free Verse. B) Apostrophe. C) Blank Verse. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank Verse. 11. Did you know that "listen" and "silent" are ..... ? A) Anagrams. B) Bibliographies. C) Telegraph. D) Autographs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anagrams. 12. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Line. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 13. A pair of rhyming lines is called: A) A haiku. B) Sonnet. C) A meter. D) A couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A couplet. 14. An expression that means something different than what it says. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Nuance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 15. The library was an ocean of books. Metaphor? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 16. The wind whistled through the trees during the storm. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. Poetry that does not follow any set form A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Blank verse. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 18. The Petrarchan Sonnet has A) One cinquain, one x-line stanza. B) Three quatrains, one couplet. C) One octave, one sesset. D) Two septets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One octave, one sesset. 19. Rhythmic writing A) Poetry. B) Short story. C) Novel. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 20. The use of word whose sound suggests its meaning. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. ← 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