This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 405 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 405 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Reading a poem several times will NOT increase your understanding A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. How many lines is a Couplet A) 7. B) 9. C) 2. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 3. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together usually in a repeating pattern or rhythm and rhyme A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Stanza. 4. Which one of these could be a personification? A) He is as slow as a turtle. B) The tornado ran through town without a care. C) BOOM!!. D) I'm just too lazy to pick another answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The tornado ran through town without a care. 5. Splat, zoom, buzz, whirl are examples of (a) A) A Naming. B) Tomato farms. C) Consonance. D) Soundies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Naming. 6. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected or closely connected words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Substitution of a part for a whole A) Juxtaposition. B) Synecdoche. C) Allusion. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 8. When making an inference, the most important thing is ..... A) What you know about the topic. B) The topic of the text. C) The characters in the text. D) Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text. 9. One line of poetry written in meter; a stanza of a long poem or hymn A) Verse. B) Alliteration. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 10. Giving human characteristics to non-human objects/ideas A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. Indicating the measure of a poem through diacritical marks A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Scansion. D) Stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scansion. 12. The emotional response evoked by a word A) Denotation. B) Ballad. C) Connotation. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 13. A poem that is defined by set metrical patterns A) Consonance. B) Fixed form. C) Alliteration. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed form. 14. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza. A) Refrain. B) Inversion. C) Reference. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 15. What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 16. A form of literature that uses words to create pictures in your mind. It engages the mind, the hear, and the senses all at once. A) Mystery. B) Conflict. C) Poetry. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 17. A stanza with four lines is called A) At five. B) To seven. C) A quadruplet. D) A quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A quatrain. 18. Comparison of two unlike things by saying something is something else; does NOT use "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. Possible to touch or handle A) Diffuse. B) Intelligible. C) Elusive. D) Tangible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tangible. 20. Two rhyming lines in a verse with the same meter Makes poetry interesting and rhythmic A) Verse. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. ← 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