This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 398 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 398 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Two people for the price of one" Mr. Yao joked.Add the comma. A) "Two people for the price of one", Mr. Yao joked. B) "Two people for the price of one, " Mr. Yao joked. C) No paragraph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Two people for the price of one, " Mr. Yao joked. 2. What is this an example of: "I think that I shall never see/ a poem as lovely as a tree" A) Couplet. B) Refrain. C) Octave. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 3. Lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure. A) Ballad. B) Tribute. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 4. A four-lined stanza A) Rhyme scheme. B) Quatrain. C) Excerpt. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 5. A comparison that gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. A comparison between two different things using like or as is called: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. The attitude of the speaker or poet toward the subject of the poem or toward the reader A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Personification. D) Anthology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 9. Is a poem where the first letter of each line is the subsequent letter of the alphabet. A) Blackout. B) Free Verse. C) Sonnet. D) ABC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABC. 10. The rhythm created by the stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables. A) Repetition. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 11. The author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem A) Author. B) Syllable. C) Poet. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 12. A sentence or writing becomes ambiguous when: A) Something is confusing. B) There is more than one interpretation. C) There is a rhyming pattern. D) The author wants to create a strong thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is more than one interpretation. 13. What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. When you gonna earn that pay When you gonna play that song and make my day The pattern of the END rhyme is also called the ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 15. Stanza with 3 lines A) Sestet. B) Quatrain. C) Triplet. D) Octet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Triplet. 16. Japanese verse, three lines and 17 syllables A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Alliteration. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 17. The use of the word 'worshipped implies that the narrator thinks she see's him as: A) A god. B) A father. C) A husband. D) An animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A god. 18. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants. A) Assonance. B) Rhyme. C) Cinquain. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 19. Spondaic meter A) An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). B) Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. C) The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. D) Two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally. 20. An ode is meant to A) Be 16 lines with a certain meter. B) Be a poem praising someone or something. C) Be three lines with 5/7/5 syllables. D) Be making a statement against something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Be a poem praising someone or something. ← 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