This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 444 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 444 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A thing that represents or stands for something else A) Literal language. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 2. The pattern of a poem's rhythm is its ..... A) Beat. B) Rhythm scheme. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 3. What is Rhyming Couplets A) Pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length. B) To give human qualities to something that is not human. C) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length. 4. An ode is a A) Short, simple poem with 20 syllables. B) Complex, lyric poem. C) Song-like poem of mourning. D) Type of poem frequently written by Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complex, lyric poem. 5. Buzz, sizzle, splashare all examples of: A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. Details extraordinary feats and adventures A) Stanza. B) Epic. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 7. Set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Ballad. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 8. Description that appeals to the senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell A) Imagery. B) Syntax. C) Speaker. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. There will be clues in stories that allow you to try to predict or ..... A) Analyze. B) Break apart. C) Make a good guess about what will happen next. D) Find out, choose or select. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make a good guess about what will happen next. 10. The feelings the author's word choices give to the poem is ..... A) Form. B) Mood/tone. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood/tone. 11. Writing or speech that means something different from what's written A) Figurative language. B) Speaker. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 12. Not easily understood or clearly expressed A) Obscure. B) Intangible. C) Inadequate. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obscure. 13. The pattern of rhyming words at the end of a verse (ABAB) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 14. What is the definition of the term:Free Verse? A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. D) The audible pattern in a poem created by stressed (emphasized) syllables. E) The pattern of rhyme determined by looking at end rhyme in lines and stanzas of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. 15. To shout praise or applause A) Acclaimed. B) Legendary. C) Crossover. D) Dubious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acclaimed. 16. What is the definition of the term:Assonance? A) The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds (hat and sit). B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr). C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. 17. "A witty worm wanders widely" is an example of A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found "sweetness and pride" in the first tomato? A) He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes. B) He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato. C) Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat. D) He knows the next tomato will not taste as good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes. 19. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas A) Foot/feet. B) End rhyme. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 20. Two lines are called? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Octave. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. ← 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