This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 76 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 76 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A short, musical poem that usually expresses personal feeling in a short and concise, and beautiful, way. A) Acrostic. B) Cinquain. C) Lyric. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 2. A very tall basketball player standing next to a very short gymnast A) Juxtaposition. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 3. What is a sentence? A) Group of words that express a complete thought. B) Sentences that are grouped together. C) Words of sentences that quote what a person has said. D) Major division of a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Group of words that express a complete thought. 4. When iambic rhythm happens 5 times in a line, making 10 syllables of alternating stresses A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Blank verse. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 5. A type of poetry that has a fixed number of syllables, stanzas, rhyme scheme and/or meter A) Rhyme scheme. B) Fixed verse. C) Free verse. D) Open form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed verse. 6. Word pictures created through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Near rhyme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. What is the main characteristic of a ballad? A) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. B) To describe one thing as if it were something else. C) To give human qualities to something that is not human. D) Song like poems that tell stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Song like poems that tell stories. 8. Fixed form A) A figure of speech that combines opposite/contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'). B) A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. C) Verse containing seven meterical feet. D) Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line. 9. How a poem or text is organized internally based on its ideas A) Stanza. B) Diction. C) Form. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 10. What is it called when poetry does not have a rhyme or a regular meter? A) Enjambment. B) Blank Verse. C) Paradox. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 11. Is honor or glorifying an event or inanimate object. Feelings not emotional. A) Balled. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 12. What do words like "Bang!" and "Meow!" exemplify in poetry? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 13. Words linked because of sound A) Iambic pentameter. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 14. Identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (also known as near rhyme or slant rhyme):home and same, worth and breath, trophy and daffy. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Euphony. E) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 15. "I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me"is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 16. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.What is this an example of? A) Elision. B) Litotes. C) Synecdoche. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 17. Words like "achoo! pow! whoosh! splat!" are examples of which literary term? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. A repetition of similar sounds.Example:She sells seashells by the seashore. A) Alliteration. B) Rhythm. C) Topography. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. When something unexpected happens A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Mood. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 20. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ? A) Point of view. B) Tone. C) Complex attitude. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. ← 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