This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 491 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 491 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry is a haiku or rhythm? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. That poor woman has so many mouths to feed. She spends all day in the kitchen. A) Synecdoche. B) Chiasmus. C) End-stopped. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 3. Form of Japanese poetry with three lines and a specific number of syllables in each line A) Wagyu. B) Haiku. C) Bartu. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 4. What is the correct spelling of the word that means a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. A) Haku. B) Haiku. C) Hiaku. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 5. A long narrative poem that tells the story of a heroic or legendary figure. A) Ballad. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 6. The use of a sound or element more than once is known as: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. Inflection is an ..... on specific words A) Option. B) Spelling. C) Avoidance. D) Emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emphasis. 8. What type of poem describes an object and relates it to a bigger idea? A) Meditation poem. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meditation poem. 9. To give human characteristics to something non-human. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. A poem that is made in the shape of your topic is called? A) Limerick. B) Personification. C) Concrete. D) Ballad. E) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 11. A group of lines that usually develop one idea A) Symbol. B) Paragraph. C) Theme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 12. The attitude of the author towards the subject that he/she is writing about is called ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Idiom. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 13. Rhyme within the same line A) Exact rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 14. The repetition of consonant sounds is known as what: A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 15. Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary A) Litotes. B) Hyperbole. C) Sarcasm. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litotes. 16. Which vocabulary word is being defined? The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. (She is pretty like a bird. He is as smart as cold as ice) A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 18. The speaker (or poet's) attitude towards the subject of the poem A) Symbolism. B) Tone. C) Figurative Language. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 19. A metaphor is nonhuman human traits A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. The beat created by its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. ← 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