This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 462 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 462 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The arrangement of words and lines on a page (in poetry) A) Style. B) Shape. C) Form. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 2. A group of words arranged into a row A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 3. Which term refers to the act of giving human characteristics to objects or abstract ideas? A) Personification. B) Pun. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. A prayer A) Muse. B) Invocation. C) Epithet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invocation. 5. Which pair of words gives the best example of a slant rhyme? A) Spring, bring. B) Bet, brush. C) First, call. D) Perch, latch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perch, latch. 6. A word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 7. A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definitive rhyme scheme is called A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 8. A word that imitates the sound it makes A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. Story told from a character within the story A) Narrator. B) First person pov. C) Third person pov. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First person pov. 10. Writing that is not poetry A) Metaphor. B) Poem. C) Stanza. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose. 11. Is the downfall of a hero, is very depressing A) Conflict. B) Tragedy. C) Scene. D) Crew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 12. A long poem written about a famous person or event is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Diamante. C) Ballad. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 13. "Every inch of my body ached after the grueling race through the scorching, arid desert." A) Quatrain. B) Stanza. C) Sensory details. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory details. 14. Group of lines that make up the equivalent of a paragraph in poetry A) Syntax. B) Stanza. C) Anaphora. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 15. What is the definition of the term:Denotation? A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. B) The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader; created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) An author's choice of words, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang and colloquial language, and level of formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. 16. A poetic device which repeats the same beginning sound for effect. A) Sonnet. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. The rhythmic structure in poetry (made up of stressed and unstressed syllables) A) Meter. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 18. Poetry written by taking a word and using each letter of that word to begin a different line in the poem.ex. Chases mice Attacks moving objects Thinks it is better A) Acrostic. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrostic. 19. Approximate rime (imperfect rime, near rime, slant rime, or oblique rime) A) Basic metrical pattern of two beats to a measure. B) A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. C) 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza. D) A term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. 20. Stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables in a verse or within lines of a poem Gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound A) Connotation. B) Meter. C) Irony. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. ← 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