This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 385 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 385 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of poem, usually with thee stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza (or envoy) of four or five lines. All Stanzas end with the same one-line refrain. A) Alexandrine. B) Antithesis. C) Blank Verse. D) Trouble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trouble. 2. A comparison between two unalike things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. A four line unit in poetry A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 4. What poetic device is this an example of?"Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam begin that way" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 5. Choose the statement below that best represents an example of imagery. A) The dog ran down the road. B) The dog ran down the dirt road. C) The dog ran down the road, and walked down the sidewalk. D) The shaggy dog trotted briskly down the dirt covered road. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The shaggy dog trotted briskly down the dirt covered road. 6. A poem with a shape or form A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Concrete. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 7. A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or group. A) Epic. B) Ballad. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 8. Lines that are presented in groups in a poem. A) Tone. B) Sound Devices. C) Line. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanzas. 9. If I can't get get tickets to the Taylor Swift concert, I will die. This is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 10. A figure of speech comparing two things that have something in common A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. A natural break or pause in a line of poetry, usually in the middle A) Cesura. B) Conceit. C) Trope. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 12. Also called a "unit" of poetry, which of the following describes a collection of poetic lines? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 13. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsex. Moby moved mountains of maroon marmots.ex. She sells seashells by the seashore. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. Which of the following answer choices is the most essential to a sonnet? A) Rhyming lines. B) Blank verse. C) 8 lines. D) 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 lines. 15. A word that sounds like what it means. Ex. buzz, click, bang, sizzle A) Diction. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Ballad. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 16. ..... is poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. A) STRUCTURED VERSE. B) FREE VERSE. C) LOOSE VERSE. D) LYRIC VERSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FREE VERSE. 17. Poetry that is defined by its lack of structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed lie length, or specific stanza pattern. A) Concrete. B) Limerick. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 18. A row of words (just one line) A) Repetition. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 19. "HIgh as a kIte in the skY"is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 20. An outrageous exaggeration used for effect. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← 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