This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 389 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 389 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of each line, labeled with an uppercase letter. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 2. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'Buzz, hiss, pop'? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 3. Groups of lines A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 4. A long poem with a serious theme usually written to honor people or events A) Ode. B) Limerick. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 5. How many steps in Mr. Voyak's study plan? A) 6. B) 8. C) 10. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 6. What term means:a narrative poem of popular origin A) Dirge. B) Epic. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. E) Eclogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 7. The speaker or narrator of a poem who is doing the talking-often not the poet A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Muse. D) Pathos. E) Persona (voice). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Persona (voice). 8. How are stanzas separated? A) With a space AND/OR by rhyming pattern. B) By meter. C) Every 4 lines. D) Every 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With a space AND/OR by rhyming pattern. 9. An important message or lesson that an author wants to share either implicitly or explicitly about people or life A) Structural elements. B) Theme. C) Text structure. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 10. Which device is used in each example below?Good as goldBusy beeLiving the life A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream. A) AAABBCCDDEE. B) AAABBCCDDAA. C) AAABBCCDDBB. D) AABCCDDEEFF. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AAABBCCDDBB. 12. A single row of words (like a sentence) A) Stanza. B) Sentence. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 13. Linking words by repeating similar initial sounds A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Inversion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn A) Aubade. B) Ballad. C) Pastoral. D) Rhapsody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aubade. 15. What is the definition of oxymoron?Ex:icy hot A) Combining two words with contrasting meaning. B) An exaggeration. C) A joke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Combining two words with contrasting meaning. 16. "Eeny meeny miny moe; catch a tiger by its toes" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 17. The devoted father was a rock for his family A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. The main idea or point of a text. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Summary. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 19. A figure of speech where words are not used in their literal sense, but rather in a figurative sense A) Trope. B) Synecdoche. C) Trochee. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trope. 20. Giving an inanimate objects human characteristics A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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