This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 421 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 421 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Which of the following statements contain no errors? A) This is a quatrain with an aaba rhyme scheme. B) This is a stanza with two couplets. C) This is a free verse quatrain. D) This is stanza with end rhyme but no meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This is a quatrain with an aaba rhyme scheme. 2. ..... is giving human characteristics to something that is not human. A) Personification. B) PersonGiving. C) Humaning. D) Emotionizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 3. Anaphoria A) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or line. B) Repetition a noun mentioned earlier in a sentence or passage. C) Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of all the lines of a poem. D) The use of a pronoun to refer to a noun mentioned in a different sentence or passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or line. 4. The repetition or pattern of similar vowel sounds:"Moses supposes his toeses are roses" A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 5. What is the purpose of using litotes in poetry? A) To use understatement for ironic effect. B) To create deliberate exaggeration for emphasis. C) To use an expression where the literal meaning is not the actual meaning. D) To present something as very good or correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To use understatement for ironic effect. 6. "Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum" The end rhyme here is an example of ..... A) Exact rhyme. B) Approximate, half or slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Approximate, half or slant rhyme. 7. The rhythm or "beat" of a poem. A) Mood. B) Meter. C) Metaphor. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 8. The following lines show an example of what:How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Repetition. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 9. What is it called when a metrical foot consist of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable? A) Iamb. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iamb. 10. A type of poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama; the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet A) Dramatic Poetry. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Lyric Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic Poetry. 11. What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Refrain. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 12. What is a poem that honors a particular person, thing, or event? A) An ode. B) A free verse. C) A ballad. D) A limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ode. 13. The meaning of rhyme is ..... A) The stanza that keeps on repeating after some lines in a poem, see often in songs. B) Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. 14. Enjambment can be best defined as ..... A) When each line of poetry is denoted by a punctuation mark. B) The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break:thoughts run on from one line to the next. C) A strong pause in the middle, beginning, or end of a line of poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break:thoughts run on from one line to the next. 15. What provides the rhythm in a sonnet? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Rhyming couplet. C) Octave. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 16. Compares two unlike things by speaking of one thing as if it were another A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. A type of rhyme that occurs between two words that are similar in sound, but do not rhyme exactly A) Stanza. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Approximate Rhyme. 18. The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. A) Theme. B) Subject. C) Tone. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 19. The repetition of vowel sounds is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 20. Some teachers will ask you to Format or ..... your work. A) Arrange text into a correct style. B) Back up with details. C) Do or complete at a steady speed. D) Turning a true story (or truth) into a make-believe story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arrange text into a correct style. ← 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