This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 55 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 55 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is when one thing takes the place of something else like an idea. A) Tone. B) Symbolism. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 2. Poetry that does not rhyme and does not follow any specific structure A) Free verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Lyric poetry. D) Narrative poetry. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 3. A comparison of two unlike things, without using like or as A) Adage. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 4. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. A) Limerick. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 5. The author's attitude in a piece of literature A) Tone. B) Sonnet. C) Point of view. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. Paragraphs in poems are called what? A) Word choice. B) Stanzas. C) 4 line couplets. D) Metaphors. E) Paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. 7. Poem A) A stanza consisting of two lines; usually rhymed. B) A regular, repeated pattern of sounds; this gives poetry a beat. C) Writing that usually has figurative language and is written in separate lines, and can have repeated rhythm and rhyme; this type of writing usually is a way of creatively expressing emotions or ideas. D) A Japanese poem or form of poetry without rhyme having three lines with the first and last lines having five syllables and the middle having seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Writing that usually has figurative language and is written in separate lines, and can have repeated rhythm and rhyme; this type of writing usually is a way of creatively expressing emotions or ideas. 8. I have a million things to do today. This is an example of A) Mood. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 9. True or False:Slant rhymes are identical A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. What is the term for a group of lines in a poem? A) Alliteration. B) Rhythm. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 11. Septet A) 7. B) 6. C) 3. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 12. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 13. A figure of speech in which something non-human is given human characteristics or feelings. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Symbolism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. Which term is this the definition for:A symbol is a person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning. A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbols. 15. What is the term for the range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning? A) Denotation. B) Definition. C) Diction. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 16. This the use of words that imitate sounds. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 17. Phrases or lines of poetry that are repeated in a poem; like the chorus of the song A) Lyric. B) Refrain. C) Couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 18. What is the main poetry type without a regular rhyme scheme? A) Ballad. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 19. Heptameter A) Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter. B) A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. C) Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. D) Verse containing seven metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse containing seven metrical feet. 20. A comparison between two seemingly unrelated things using connecting words (like, as, or seems). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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