This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 410 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 410 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A form of poetry that tells a story A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Lyric. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative poem. 2. Denotation is ..... A) Implied meaning of a word, which goes beyond its dictionary definition. B) Literal definition of a word. C) The connotation of a word. D) A synonym of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal definition of a word. 3. A sad or thoughtful poem, often lamenting someone's death A) Acrostic. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 4. A type of poetry that includes 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, the third 5 syllables. A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 5. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am the dream and the hope of the slave." A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. Two consecutive lines that have end rhyme A) End rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Slant rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 7. The interpretation of a phrase(figure it out) A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 8. Words, phrases, or ideas in a poem that are repeated A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 9. Her as were as blue as the sky on a mid-summer day. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. What is the definition of a connotation? A) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. B) The negative attributes associated with a word or phrase. C) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The positive attributes associated with a word or phrase. 11. The definition of the term "tone" is ..... A) Words that begin with the same sound near each other. B) The atmosphere or feeling that a poem creates. C) Words that imitate natural sounds. D) How the speaker feels about their subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How the speaker feels about their subject. 12. A figure of speech comparing two things by stating that one thing is another thing A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. Poems are told through a voice called the A) Narrator. B) Speaker. C) Author. D) Talker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 14. Direct comparison between two things (NOT using like or as) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme A) Free verse. B) Lyric poetry. C) Sonnet. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 16. You are sunlight and I moon. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." A) Allusion. B) Conceit. C) Analogy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 18. Which term means the use of a word, phrase, sound, or line more than once? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 19. Poetry that doesn't have a set rhythm, line length, or rhyme scheme; it relies, instead, on the natural rhythms of speech; today the most widely practiced form of poetry in the English language A) Stanza. B) Free verse. C) Allusion. D) Literal language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 20. The way a sentence is structured A) Syntax. B) Mood. C) Enjambment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. ← 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