This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 417 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 417 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a beat from the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Repetition. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 2. This is an example of:Playful waves ticklethe smooth rock, but seaweed hair ..... uncombed ..... hides its smile A) Haiku. B) Tanka. C) Quatrain. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 3. A sound, word, or line repeated regularly in a poem A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Form. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is what type of figurative language. A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Poetry. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. The poet's attitude towards the poem's speaker, reader, subject matter is called ..... ? A) Feelings. B) Tone. C) Thoughts. D) Emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. Which of these is NOT imagery: A) I shivered as the wind whipped around my shoulders. B) The fairground was awash with aromas of delicious fried foods. C) The puppy only sold for $ 5 at the pet auction. D) The crimson flowers danced in the meadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The puppy only sold for $ 5 at the pet auction. 7. An expression used whose meaning is not created entirely from the words is known as a what? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 8. When a poet ends a line with punctuation; meant to establish a pause A) Narrative. B) Enjambment. C) End-stop. D) Sound devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End-stop. 9. Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme is called ..... A) Couplet. B) Free verse. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 10. Type of meter that has (3) syllables, ( stressed$\rightarrow$ unstressed$\rightarrow$unstressed) A) Iamb. B) Trochee. C) Spondee. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dactyl. 11. Tyrell, desperate to find his homework, dug through his backpack like a dog digging for buried bones. A) This is an example of a metaphor. B) This is an example of a symbol. C) This is an example of a simile. D) This is an example of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This is an example of a simile. 12. Words have the same middle vowel sound. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 13. Language that appeals to your 5 senses A) Rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Imagination. D) Visual representation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 14. Which word means to form mental images using one or more of the five senses? A) Symbol. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Drawing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 15. A poem that tells a story and has a plot, characters, and a setting A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 16. An intentionally exaggerated figure of speech for emphasis or effect A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. A break between words within a metrical foot. A) Accent. B) Stanza. C) Stress. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cesura. 18. Comparison of 2 things, using the word like or as A) Metaphor. B) Allegory. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free" is an example of ..... A) Anaphora. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 20. Consecutive lines, stanza, or entire poem has the same end rhyme A) Monorhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monorhyme. ← 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