This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 452 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 452 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Discord is a(n) A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 2. The use of something concrete to represent something deeper or more abstract A) Symbolism. B) Meter. C) Theme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 3. A phrase or an expression (sometimes called figure of speech) that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. EX. "It's raining cats and dogs." A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 4. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. An example:Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope. A) Denotation. B) Couplet. C) Rhythm. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 5. A section of a poem, ALSO types of poems A) Poetry. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verse. 6. Rhythmic patterns in poetry are called A) Beats. B) Meters. C) Iambs. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meters. 7. A group of words forming a phrase or sentence consisting of one or more lines repeated atintervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza A) Rhyme. B) Chorus. C) Repetition. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 8. Please put away your paints and practice the piano. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter is A) Ballad. B) Verse. C) Free verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 10. A large exaggeration A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. Choose the alliteration. A) Santa slipped on the slick floor. B) BANG!. C) He was as slow as a turtle. D) My life is a tornado right now. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Santa slipped on the slick floor. 12. Words that sound like the object or actions they refer to A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 13. What is "the attitude of the poet toward the subject" ? A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Concrete. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. What are the following an examples of? Fleet feet sweep, last laugh A) Assonance. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 15. A group of lines that contain a complete idea that contributes to the overall meaning. A) Pace. B) Stanza. C) Mode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 16. This type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two unlike things. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. What is an example of an alliteration? A) The vase flew off of the shelf. B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. C) The plant liked to fly. D) I like to eat pie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. 18. A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than" A) Personification. B) Meter. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. What is the definition of the term:Stanza? 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: C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. 20. A closed form poem is one that A) Answers important political questions of its time. B) Has no rhyme or traditional number of stanzas. C) Has a fixed form with defined patterns of rhyme, meter and repetition. D) Has ideas counter to the mainstream social norms of its time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has a fixed form with defined patterns of rhyme, meter and repetition. ← 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