This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 409 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 409 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A word that is the same as another word. An example:Crying = Sobbing A) Synonym. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonym. 2. A fourteen-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, often written in iambic pentameter. A) Ode. B) Metaphor. C) Sonnet. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 3. The author or speaker's ATTITUDE toward a character or subject of a text is ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 4. The author's attitude toward the subject or text A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 5. What is a small part of a larger work? A) Stanza break. B) Dedication. C) Excerpt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Excerpt. 6. ..... is the process of giving human qualities to something that isn't human. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. Which technique is illustrated in the following lines:On Saturday, she silentlyScribbled something in the sunshineAnd sighed as a swift swooshScrambled her shiny, simple sayings. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. The use of words that help the reader understand how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel. A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). B) Verse (verse). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). 9. Repeated words, phrases, sentences A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 10. Organic poems..... A) Have no patterns and no fixed rules (including punctuation/spelling). B) Come from the soul. C) Trigger the audience. D) Are all free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have no patterns and no fixed rules (including punctuation/spelling). 11. Words that express more than their literal meaning A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. C) Figurative Language. D) Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 12. The meter and rhyme of a poem A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Prosody. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prosody. 13. What is a group of lines in poetry called? A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Paragraph. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. Words that mimic sounds A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 15. Fancy word for contrast; place 2 unlike objects close to each other A) Origami. B) Euphemism. C) Litotes. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 16. Giving human qualities to non living objects A) Sonnet. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 17. AABBCCDDEEFF is an example of ..... A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Meter. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 18. The speaker of a poem is ..... A) The writer or poet. B) The person who recites the poem. C) Identified by tone and context clues. D) Depends on the time period or era. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Identified by tone and context clues. 19. A three-line poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. A) Diamonte. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 20. Repetition of syllables at the end of words, often at the end of a line of poetry, but there are many unique kinds of rhymes. A) Rhythm. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. ← 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