This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 50 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 50 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The character who is the voice of the poem (usually not the author; sometimes this character is a part of the poem OR outside of the poem A) Line. B) Speaker. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 2. A type of lyric poem that addresses broad, serious themes such as justice, truth, or beauty. A) Ode. B) Free Verse. C) Cinquain. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 3. What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words? A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 4. Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea. A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Paradox. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as or as if A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Extended metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what sound device? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Oxymoron. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 7. Shakespearean sonnet A) The process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern, such as iambic pentameter. B) The last six lines of poetry in a sonnet where the conclusion of the problem is "solved.". C) A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D) A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 8. Third rime A) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. B) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. C) A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark. D) A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. 9. A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. "Save me from the hateful sea and the jagged lightning and the violence of love." ~~ MEDEA A) Unrelated. B) Incremental repetition. C) Multi-connectors. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connectors. 11. When a line in a poem breaks and continues onto the next line? A) Line. B) Line break. C) Stanza. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line break. 12. What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza ..... Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date. A) ABCD. B) AABB. C) Father. D) 1212. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 13. This is the universal idea, meaning, or message of a text. A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Meaning. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 14. The meaning, associations, and feelings given to a word by society are its what? A) Personification. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 15. A form of poetry written in iambic pentameter, but which does not rhyme. The most famous examples are "Paradise Lost" by John Milton and the plays of William Shakespeare A) Couplet. B) Blank verse. C) Sonnet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 16. Matching ending sounds in two or more words A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 17. Newspapers and textbooks are written in ..... A) Prose. B) Verse. C) Irregular structure. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 18. Verses; how the poem is divided. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Symbol. D) Stanza. E) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 19. ..... is when the final accented vowel and succeeding consonants are identical. A) Fake Rhyme. B) True Rhyme. C) False Rhyme. D) Try Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True Rhyme. 20. The repetition of inner and ending consonant sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. ← 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