This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 77 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 77 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A two line stanza A) Couplet. B) Triplet. C) Quatrain. D) Quintet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 2. What type of language is a collection of words and phrases that shares an idea beyond the literal meaning? A) Figurative. B) Normal. C) Beyond-the-meaning language. D) Image language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative. 3. Rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein") A) Big Rhymes. B) Long Rhyme. C) Multisyllabic Rhymes. D) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multisyllabic Rhymes. 4. A one word subject present throughout a literary work. Can be used to create a main topic. A) Theme. B) Motif. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 5. The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Speaker. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 6. Which word is defined as the "repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the s in sleep-song" ? A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Literal language A) Language that is not what it says. B) Language that you have to read between the lines. C) Language that means exactly what it says. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language that means exactly what it says. 8. Pattern of rhyme, that repeats across different stanzas A) Rhyme scheme. B) Poetry. C) Alliteration. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 9. A ..... is a group of related lines in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Narrative poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 10. A Latin term meaning "in the middle of things" A) Myth. B) Hubris. C) Muse. D) In media res. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In media res. 11. What is the role of the poet in a poem? A) To use words that imitate the sound they are naming. B) To express ideas, feelings, or tell a story in a specific form. C) To give human qualities to non-human things. D) To compare two unlike things not using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express ideas, feelings, or tell a story in a specific form. 12. You can have some rhymes in free verse A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. 'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade' is an example of A) Simile. B) Image. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia StoutWould not take the garbage out.She'd scour the pots and scrape the pansCandy the yams and spice the hams." A) Rhyming quatrains. B) AABB. C) Father. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABB. 15. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. A) Allusion. B) Sensory language. C) Personification. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 16. Understatement is A) A comparison using 'like or as'. B) An exaggeration. C) A rhythmic pattern. D) A lack of emphasis of expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lack of emphasis of expression. 17. Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 18. Repetition of vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 19. IN order to complete a Lego set you must Trace or ..... the instructions. A) Find out, choose or select. B) Break apart. C) Realize or understand. D) To follow the steps/outline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To follow the steps/outline. 20. A stanza with 8 lines is called ..... A) Seven. B) Quatrain. C) Tercet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. ← 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