This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 471 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 471 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of vowel sounds. Hear the mellow wedding bells.-"Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 2. Popular narrative passed down orally. A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Romance. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 3. She sells seashells A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. An emphasized or recurring concept in a piece of writing. Ex. death, love, rejection A) Metaphor. B) Motif. C) Mothra. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 5. A comparison between two unlike items using the words 'like' or 'as' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. Which is the correct definition for Internal Rhyme? A) An exact rhyme within a line of poetry. B) An exaggeration for effect. C) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. D) Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An exact rhyme within a line of poetry. 7. The form of poetry characterized by following a set structure. Depending on the form, they may have a set number of lines, stanzas or rhyme scheme. A) Traditional. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional. 8. Rhythmical pattern determined by the number and arrangement of stressed syllables in each line A) Meter. B) Rhyme. C) Figurative language. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 9. ..... is the use of repeated words or phrases. A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Line. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 10. What is "the recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses" ? A) Rhythm. B) Imagery. C) Ballad. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 11. What is a chapter? A) Group of words that express a complete thought. B) Sentences that are grouped together. C) Words of sentences that quote what a person has said. D) Major division of a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Major division of a novel. 12. This form has a stanza of four lines A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 13. A division in a poem named for the number of lines contains. The most common are couplets (2 lines), triplet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines), cinquain (5 lines), etc. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Stanza. 14. Run-on line A) A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. B) A rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition." Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme. C) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. D) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. 15. Using purposeful exaggeration for emphasis A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. Start/launch A) Rhyme. B) Antonym. C) Synonym. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonym. 17. What is the definition of the term:Tone? A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. B) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work; often suggested by descriptive details and relates directly to tone. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. 18. Describes where rhyming words fall within a stanza or verse A) Concrete poem. B) Symbolism. C) Rhyme pattern. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme pattern. 19. Which is the correct defintion of alliteration? A) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. B) Two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. C) A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. D) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. 20. The man sweats to death/ As he walks along A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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