This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 483 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 483 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an inanimate object as if it were able to reply A) Cutting. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 2. What is a theme? A) Something that runs throughout a whole text. B) Something in a line of a text. C) Something that shows what people feel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something that runs throughout a whole text. 3. The person who wrote the poem; the author of the poem A) Speaker. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet. 4. A group of lines in a poem. People often mistakenly call them paragraphs. A) Stanza. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 5. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person; usually musical A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 6. "There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;" A) Consonance. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 7. A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 8. Read the following sentence: "I am as smart as a fox." This is an example of a ..... A) Poet. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) A narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 9. She tried to make a short version of the story or ..... it. A) Trace. B) Summarize. C) Analyze. D) Summerize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summarize. 10. ..... is a big exaggeration, usually with humor. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. What is a word that represents a sound? A) Simile. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 12. The use of repeated words, phrases, images, or symbols A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Ode. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 13. When the words start with the same letter. A) Line. B) Alliteration. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. What is the term for the main message or lesson in a poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Theme. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 15. A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line-no pause or break A) Archetype. B) Enjambment. C) Metrics. D) Rhyme Scheme:Internal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 16. Emotional quality of a story or poem A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 17. What is meter measured in? A) Miles. B) Feet. C) Centimeters. D) Inches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feet. 18. When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't A) Dramatic hyperbole. B) Dramatic imagery. C) Dramatic irony. D) Dramatic simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 19. Rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse A) Exact Rhyme. B) Multisyllabic Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme. 20. The time, place, and cirmcumstances that the poem is about. A) Setting. B) Reader. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. ← 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