This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 71 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Songlike poems that tell stories of adventure and romance A) Ballad. B) Concrete poem. C) Limerick. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 2. This is when a sound is repeated over and over again. Example:Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore. A) Idiom. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 3. What term is defined as a comparison that says one thing is another? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. Carrying a sentence or a phrase over the end of a line (in poetry) A) Cutting. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 5. What is the name of a personwho writes poetry? A) Author. B) Singer. C) Poet. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 6. Define slant rhyme. A) Words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. B) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsa close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. 7. A poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns A) Ballad. B) Free verse. C) Haiku. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 8. The author's use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine exactly what is being described is ..... A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Homophone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. "He weighs a ton" is an example of: A) Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. The imaginary voice assumed by the writer in the poem is called ..... A) Rhythm/meter. B) Hyperbole. C) Speaker. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 11. A short lyrical poem, often in praise of something. A) Ode. B) Sonnet. C) Metaphor. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 12. The number and style of accented syllables in a line A) Theme. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 13. Read the following line: "My brother tapped his pencil lightly on the desk as he hummed." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal? A) Sense of hearing. B) Sense of smell. C) Sense of taste. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sense of hearing. 14. What is the purpose of an extended metaphor in poetry? A) To hint at a comparison without clearly stating it. B) To give human qualities to non-human things. C) To go several lines or the entire length of a work. D) To compare two unlike things not using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To go several lines or the entire length of a work. 15. Which word means:'To compare two objects using the words like or as?' A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. How many stanzas does the following poem contain? One foot down, then hop! It's hot.Good things for the ones that's got.Another jump, now to the left.Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down.Since you black, don't stick around.Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two. All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the line, they count you out.That's what hopping's all about. Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won. A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 17. Stories that use fantasy to express ideas about life that cannot be expressed easily in realistic terms A) In media res. B) Flashbacks. C) Muses. D) Myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myths. 18. The mood that influences a reader's emotional response to a poem A) Point of view. B) Theme. C) Main idea. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 19. A collection of lines in a poem that resemble a paragraph. A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Enjambment. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 20. What is:a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" and "as?" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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