This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 474 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 474 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character. Ex:serious, sarcastic A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Assonance. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 2. "I have a million things to do!" is an example of which poetic device? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 3. The repetition of specific consonant sounds in close proximity. A) Consonance. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 4. Lines of poetry combined into groups, like a paragraph for poetry, is called A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Repetition. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 5. What is a single metrical line called in poetry? A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Verse. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 6. What country do Haiku poems come from? (a) A) Thailand. B) Singapore. C) A Japan. D) Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Japan. 7. Analyzing a poem for both meter and rhyme scheme is called: A) Tetrameter. B) Scansion. C) Anapest. D) Petrachian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scansion. 8. Poems without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Some poets use this type of poem to capture the sounds of ordinary speech. A) Ode. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 9. "He moves like a black cloud"This line is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Poetic license A) A poet's departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme. B) Writing or spoken language in its ordinary paragraph form, without metrical structure. C) Wordplay that uses homonyms to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. D) A four-line stanza of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poet's departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme. 11. What is this an example of? Jose was like a sad puppy. A) Hyperbole. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. Is the repetition of ending syllable sounds A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Patter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 13. The repetition of same or similar sounds at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. A seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true. Example: "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." Henry David Thoreau A) Palindrome. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Poetic license. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 15. The repetition of inner vowel (a-e-i-o-u) sounds in nearby words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 16. The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 17. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" is an example of ..... because it has repeated vowel sounds. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. Narrative Free Verse Poem A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. B) A poem written in the shape of the topic or the theme of the poem. C) An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud or through poetry. D) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. 19. This is the giving of human traits to nonhuman things. A) Humanification. B) Humanism. C) Personification. D) Perfectionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. What vocabulary word means:Work jointly on an activity, especially to produce to create something, cooperate on a project A) Idiom. B) Biosterous. C) Collaborate. D) Rigorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collaborate. ← 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