This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 407 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 407 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the correct term for the following definition? A formal division of lines in a poem and is considered as a unit. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 2. This is a lyric poem composed of fourteen lines, is usually written in iambic pentameter, and is organized in strict divisions of stanza division and rhyme. A) Consonance. B) Sonnet. C) Hyperbole. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 3. The general subject of the poem (who? what? when? where? why? how?) A) Theme. B) Topic. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Topic. 4. An example of this is "My heart is a stereo." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. What is "repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis" ? A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Quatrain. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 6. Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 7. Honorarium A) A token payment for published work. B) Basic unit of a poem. C) Stanza of 8 lines. D) Words that sound alike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A token payment for published work. 8. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of at least two words in a line of poetry A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 9. A poetic device that repeats the beginning sound of a word for effect is called ..... For example:Bees buzz past the blooming blossoms. A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. Attitude of the speaker toward the subject; overall emotion expressed through words and sentence length is called: A) Tone. B) Prose. C) Free Verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 11. "Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously." A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 12. Ms. Warzy is going to this place for Spring Break A) Arizona. B) San Diego. C) Upstate New York. D) Las Vegas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arizona. 13. A reference to a person, place, or event outside of the text meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea A) Alliteration. B) Abstract. C) Allusion. D) Anachronism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 14. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. "humorous, sarcastic, inspirational" are examples of ..... words A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Poetic. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 16. An author describing black crows lurking around the house of a villain in a text is an example of A) Symbolism. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 17. What is the definition of the term:Rhythm? A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. D) The audible pattern in a poem created by stressed (emphasized) syllables. E) The pattern of rhyme determined by looking at end rhyme in lines and stanzas of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The audible pattern in a poem created by stressed (emphasized) syllables. 18. Three syllable metrical foot, one stressed followed by two unstressed A) Dactyl. B) Anapest. C) Trochee. D) Spondee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dactyl. 19. Could, Should, Would and Good are examples of ..... A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 20. The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by a different consonant sound. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Refrain. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. ← 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