This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 400 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 400 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that forms a picture of the topic A) Lyric. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concrete. 2. Prosody is A) The rhythm of the poem. B) The structure of the poem. C) The meter and rhyme of the poem. D) The figurative language of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The meter and rhyme of the poem. 3. A group of lines in a poem, separated by space from other groups of lines, much like a paragraph in prose A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Rhythm. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 4. A rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse. A) INTERNAL RHYME. B) PUN. C) HYPERBOLE. D) DICTION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) INTERNAL RHYME. 5. If you read the line, "And now I laid me down to sleep, " the word "sleep" is most likely a reference to death. What is this an example of? A) Diction. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 6. Define rhyme scheme. A) The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem. B) A poem that follows the line pattern of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds of words in a line. D) When villains use rhyming poems to tell their henchmen of their evil schemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem. 7. A quatrain is..... lines A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 8. A couplet is ..... A) Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. B) Three consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. C) Four consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. D) Five consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. 9. The comparison of two unlike things without using like or as A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. (Similar to a sentence in an essay) A) Line or Verse. B) Verse. C) Line. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 11. An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common. A) Similarly. B) Metaphor. C) Paradox. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Words or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words A) Rhythm. B) Pattern. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 13. Poems requiring no pattern or structure A) Open. B) Fixed. C) Free Verse. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 14. Last two lines in a sonnet A) Couple. B) Couplet. C) Four. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 15. What type of figurative language is the following: "But still, like dust, I'll rise?" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. Four-line stanza in a poem A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 17. Read the following line: "The clear water sparkled in the sunlight." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal? A) Sense of hearing. B) Sense of smell. C) Sense of sight. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sense of sight. 18. What is the purpose of a metaphor in poetry? A) To represent something else. B) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. C) To give human qualities to something that is not human. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. 19. Which poetry term is being used in this example?If he forgets her birthday, he is a dead duck. A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. What is the term for the inexactness or uncertainty in a poem's meaning? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Ambiguity. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambiguity. ← 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