This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 478 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 478 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of free verse poem where the first letter of each line, read down the page, spells the subject of them poem A) Haiku. B) Acrostic. C) Haiku. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 2. The emotion in the poem created by the poet and also what the reader feels while reading the poem A) Speaker. B) Author's Purpose. C) Mood. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 3. 3-line Japanese verse; 5-7-5 pattern A) Narrative. B) Haiku. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 4. A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Poetry. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Divisions of a poem A) Sestet. B) Quatrain. C) Stanza. D) Unit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 6. A sentence of a poem A) Line. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Stanza. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 7. Stylistic device in which the repeated vowel sound to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Free verse. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 8. What type of poetry has no pattern? A) Shakespeare. B) Sonnet. C) Imagery. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 9. What is the term for the main idea or message of a poem? A) Plot. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 10. The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 11. In poetry, a stanza is like a ..... in prose. A) Word. B) Page. C) Paragraph. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paragraph. 12. "Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally: A) Antonyms. B) Sensory details. C) Figurative language. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 14. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. Finding the meaning of the poem is called A) Attitude. B) Connotation. C) Paraphrase. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 16. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 17. "The wave was a tall monster" is an example of: A) Meter. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. The pattern of rhyme A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 19. "Nature's first green is gOLD, Her hardest hue to hOLD.Her early leaf's a flOWER;But only so an hOUR."is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 20. The repetition of vowel sounds, like the ones in "Hear the mellow wedding bells! From the molten, golden notes!" is an example of which sound device? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. ← 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