This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 403 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 403 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poems do not have a message or theme A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Change in the movement or tone of a poem resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader A) Refrain. B) Shift. C) Stanza. D) Couplet (Rhyming Couplet). E) Tercet (Triplet). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shift. 3. What is this an example of? I made my way to the lake. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 4. Choose the definition for:mood A) The use, more than once, of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence. B) A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. C) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. D) The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. 5. The author's attitude toward the subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Connotations. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. The pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence. A) Line. B) Rhythm. C) Consonance. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 7. "I lie down by the side of my bride" contains A) Foreshadowing. B) A simile. C) A metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 8. I'm so tired, I could sleep for 100 years! A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. When it comes, the landscape listens, Shadows hold their breath. (Emily Dickinson, "A Certain Slant of Light" ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What type of poetry is this the definition for?An unrhymed Japanese poem, delicate in feel and usually about nature; composed of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables (17 syllables total) A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 11. "Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul" is an example of a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Repetition of an initial phrase A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 13. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance/comparison between things using like or as A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Synonym. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Character, place, thing, or event that stands for something else, often an abstract idea A) Symbol. B) Cliche. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 15. What is:a word that sounds like it is spelled? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Symbolism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 16. A fourteen line poem with a specific scheme. The poem is written in three quatrains (4 lines) and ends with a couplet (2 lines). The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg A) Lyric. B) Shakespearean Sonnet. C) Concrete Poem. D) Narrative Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean Sonnet. 17. A figure of speech in which an animal or an object is given human or lifelike qualities A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. Poetry that tells a story in verse; often have similar elements to those in a short story (plot, characters, setting) A) Narrative (poetry). B) Lyric. C) Traditional. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative (poetry). 19. An elaborate and extended simile or metaphor that links two apparently unrelated fields in an unusual way is known as Metaphysical Conceit. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. The "paragraphing" or arrangement of the lines of a poem A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Refrain. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. ← 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