This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 406 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 406 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem creating a pattern and increasing rhythm. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 2. I do my chores each Saturday.First, I fold the laundry and put it away.Then I sweep and mop the kitchen floor.After that, I empty all the garbage cans andthe recycling. Finally, when all of my chores arefinished, I can go outside to play. A) Compare and contrast. B) Problem and solution. C) Description. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sequence. 3. ..... is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. What do we call poems that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker? A) Mock epics. B) Lyric poems. C) Free verse poems. D) Odes. E) Epic poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poems. 5. The implied or suggested meaning connected with a word A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Connotation. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 6. "Fast and Furious" is an example of: A) Pattern. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. The physical structure of a poem is called the ..... A) Theme. B) Lines. C) Form. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 8. What is the feeling that a poem (or other text) creates for the reader? A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 9. Stating one thing is another thing A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. Poems are most similar to: A) Homework. B) Songs. C) Instructions. D) Video Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Songs. 11. Sentimentality A) A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. B) Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. D) Excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. 12. Select the correct definition for simile. A) Describing two unlike things, saying one thing in another. B) Comparing and contrasting two things. C) Describing two unlike things, using like or as. D) Telling which of two things is your favorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describing two unlike things, using like or as. 13. Giving humanlike qualities to a nonhuman object is ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. A person who writes the poem A) Playwright. B) Author. C) Poet. D) Poetic person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 15. Something repeated regularly in a poem, such as the chorus of a song. A) Point of View. B) Speaker. C) Refrain. D) Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 16. The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences: A) Symbolism. B) Tone. C) Syntax. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 17. A group of words putting together in a poem forming a sentences is called a- A) Stanza. B) Poem. C) Graphical elements. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 18. The lesson or message given by a piece of literature or poem is the A) Meter. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 19. Usually consists of quatrains, tells a story, and is about a tragedy A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 20. The student received a score of 50/100 on his exam. The teacher passes it back to him. The student says, "Oh great, it'll be fun explaining this one to my mom." A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal Irony. ← 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