This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 492 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 492 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Usually refers to a single line of poetry, but can mean any part of a poem or any poetry. A) Form. B) Free verse. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 2. This is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 3. The literal meaning of a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Figurative language. D) Rooms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 4. Written work that tells a story through action and speech and is acted out A) Drama. B) Scene. C) Act. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 5. A type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways A) Poetry. B) Figurative language. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 6. Shows conflict with humor, is meant to be a funny play A) Playwright. B) Props. C) Cast. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comedy. 7. Repetition of the initial consonant sound. A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. Ending a line with a complete sentence or clause ..... ends with punctuation A) End Stop. B) Enjambment. C) Verse. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Stop. 9. Its dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have A) Denotation. B) Cliche. C) Elegy. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 10. Which sentence is an example of assonance? A) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. B) Sally really idealy needs a pearly cookie quickly. C) The heat is a neat treat for the wheat. D) I went to the store and bought bread, cheese, and ketchup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The heat is a neat treat for the wheat. 11. The work of art spoke to us is an example of a ..... ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. Harsh, jarring sound; discord. A) Cacophony. B) Euphony. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cacophony. 13. Giving human qualities to non-human things or ideas is known as ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. A group of two or more lines together A) Indentation. B) Assonance. C) Stanza. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 15. A fixed form of poetry consisting of 14 lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Blank verse. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 16. Language that means exactly what it says. A) Literal Language. B) Figurative Language. C) Imagery. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal Language. 17. Repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words, most often at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Poetic theme. C) Poetic voice. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. Rhyming words placed within a line (The mouse in the house woke the cat.) A) End rhyme. B) Alternating rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 19. Comparing two things without like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Poetry defined by its lack of structure A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Lyric poem. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. ← 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