This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 425 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 425 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How are stanzas set apart? A) By spaces above and below. B) They aren't set apart. C) By spaces above. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By spaces above and below. 2. Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Stress. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 3. Repeated sounds at the end of words is also known as ..... A) Rhythm. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 4. Simile is..... A) A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles. B) A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or resembles. C) The poet's words create images or pictures in the reader's mind. D) Literal definition of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles. 5. Groups of words that poetry is divided into A) Stanzas. B) Refrain. C) Lines. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lines. 6. What is the purpose of dramatic poetry? A) Tell a story. B) To be acted out. C) Express emotions and feelings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be acted out. 7. A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for truths about human life. A) Oxymoron. B) Allegory. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 8. A group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Sentence. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 9. A sonnet is a lyrical 16-line poem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. When a poem has lines ending with the same sounds, it is called ..... A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme scheme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 11. A verse made up of four lines A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Verse. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 12. Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement (NO strict meter or rhyme scheme) A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Structure. D) End-stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 13. What is the tone of the following passage? The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it ..... hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room. A) Eerie. B) Sarcastic. C) Passionate. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous. 14. Descriptive language that appeals to the senses. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 15. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Balled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 16. What is the repetition of words (or phrases) at the start of a series of lines in a poem for dramatic effect called? A) Form. B) Anaphora. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 17. The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence-more than once A) Repetition. B) Lyric. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 18. Poetry that does not follow a regular rhytmic pattern or rhyme scheme. A) Dialect. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 19. In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play A) Exposition. B) Alliteration. C) Epistrophe. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 20. What is the purpose of "A Poison Tree, " by William Blake? A) To tell about a tree in his yard. B) To tell about his feelings of anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To tell about his feelings of anger. ← 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