This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mask or voice assumed by a writer. A) Persona. B) Tone. C) Point of view. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persona. 2. What is the purpose of assonance in poetry? A) To repeat similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables. B) To give human qualities to something that is not human. C) To describe one thing as if it were something else. D) To repeat vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To repeat vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables. 3. What is a stanza in poetry? A) The words an author uses to create a certain mood. B) Repeating the same words or phrases. C) A paragraph in poetry. D) Words that sound the same (endings match). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A paragraph in poetry. 4. What is "repeating the same sound at the beginning of words" ? A) Rhythm. B) Alliteration. C) Lyric. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. Repetition of vowel sounds within neighboring words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 6. A poem that does not rhyme and does not have a regular meter or rhythm is called- A) Free verse. B) Standard verse. C) Irregular verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 7. Rhyming words that fall at the END of a line of poetry. A) Internal rhyme. B) External rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External rhyme. 8. A single row of words in a poem is called a ..... A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 9. True or False:A stanza is a paragraph in a poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is repeated A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Repetition. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 11. Moving to a scene that is in a time later in the story A) Flash forward. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flash forward. 12. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse A) Lyric. B) Song. C) Free verse. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 13. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth;Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem? A) AABB. B) ABBA. C) Father. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABBA. 14. Pictures drawn in the reader's mind by the words of the poet A) Refrain. B) Imagery. C) Homonym. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 15. Define Persona A) The attitude or feeling of the poem expressed by the poet. B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. C) A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse. D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. 16. What is an example of assonance? A) Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. B) He struck a streak of bad luck. C) How now bro cow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How now bro cow. 17. Words or phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses A) Alliteration. B) Figurative language. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 18. What is writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present called? A) Apostrophe. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 19. A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. Choose the definition for:theme A) The centrel message, concern, or purpose of a literary work. B) A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. C) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike ideas. D) The use of words that imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The centrel message, concern, or purpose of a literary work. ← 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