This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 450 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 450 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of inversion? A) When a word means the opposite of something. B) When the normal order of words is reversed. C) A comparison made between two unlike things. D) When something bad happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the normal order of words is reversed. 2. N. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase A) Anagram. B) Autograph. C) Diagram. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anagram. 3. The emotional suggestions attached to words beyond their strict definitions A) Denotation. B) Idiom. C) Connotation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 4. A comparison between two things using the word like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Figurative language. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 5. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a line? A) Is a complete sentence/thought. B) 1 word, phrase, or can be a sentence. C) May be short or long. D) Are not necessarily a complete sentence or thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is a complete sentence/thought. 6. What term means:a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life A) Dirge. B) Epic. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. E) Eclogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Eclogue. 7. What is the most logical line to complete the poem? Mary had a little poodle All day long she ate a ..... A) Noodle. B) Lamb. C) No clue. D) Llama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noodle. 8. Funny poems; last line is usually the punch line A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Limerick. D) End-stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 9. What is the purpose of a symbol in poetry? A) Anything that represents something else. B) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. C) To describe one thing as if it were something else. D) To give human qualities to something that is not human. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anything that represents something else. 10. A poem centered on themes of death and dying A) Ode. B) Epic. C) Elegy. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 11. A reference to a certain person, place, or event from the past ..... A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem A) Quatrain. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 13. What is the repeating of words, letters, sounds, lines, etc.? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 14. Which word means a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Alliteration. B) Lyric. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 15. A type of poem that isn't written with a strict rhyming pattern or stanza structure A) Narrative poem. B) Ballad. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 16. "Oh, the bells ..... /how they clang, and clash, and roar!" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. Which term means comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Synecdoche. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. Which of the following is an example of enjambment?(a) The orphan arrived in outlandish hat, proud pain of new button boots.(b) Alone, she would cut her way through a new world's graystone chapels, the steep and sideways ..... A) A. B) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 19. Which is an example of "simile" ? A) The pumpkin was a large as a house. B) The pumpkin is a house. C) The pumpkin was yellow/orange. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pumpkin was a large as a house. 20. Saying "I could eat something" when you're starving and haven't had a meal in over 24 hours. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. ← 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