This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 489 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 489 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The arrangement of lines separated by an empty line" is ..... A) End Rhyme. B) In Room. C) A Quatrain. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Room. 2. An object used to stand for something else A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Confusing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 3. A poem that tells a story with a plot, characters, setting, dialogue, etc. A) Ballad. B) Lyric poem. C) Sonnet. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative poem. 4. Four-lined stanza A) Quatrain. B) Tetrameter. C) Pentameter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 5. A short poem with a song like quality A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 6. A type of narrative poetry written in four-line rhyming stanzas A) Free verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Lyric poetry. D) Narrative poetry. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Ballad. 7. What is an Octave A) 9 lines. B) 10 lines. C) 3 lines. D) 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8 lines. 8. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. What term is described as the central idea of a work? A) Tone. B) Haiku. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 10. The following line is an example of which metrical foot? "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;" A) Dactyl. B) Anapest. C) Spondee. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anapest. 11. Poems should be read with good speed, clarity, and ..... A) Body movement. B) Tone of voice. C) Expression. D) Good posture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expression. 12. Rhymes that occur in the middle of a line are ..... A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhymes. C) Near/slant rhyme. D) Shakespearean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 13. "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn" This line is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. Unit of language into which a poem or play is divided. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 15. When a poet repeats lines but changes one or more words with each repetition. A) Refrain. B) Repetition. C) Variation. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variation. 16. I will love you for a thousand years. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 17. What is a ballad poem? A) A poem that tells a story. B) A poem that does not have any set rules. C) A poem that tells a story and is similar to a folk tale or legend. D) A poem that expresses thoughts and feelings and is musical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poem that tells a story and is similar to a folk tale or legend. 18. Poets group lines into stanzas to create an effect or express an idea A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Poetry. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 20. (literary) brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature A) Unscathed. B) Parallel. C) Pelt. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. ← 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