This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 88 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 88 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Grouped lines of poerty A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Couplets. D) End rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 2. Rhyme pattern in a poem (marked with letters) A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Extended metaphor. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 3. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close togetherex.- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. Form is ..... A) The arrangement of lines in a poem. B) A poet's attitude. C) The definition of a word. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The arrangement of lines in a poem. 5. This is is a pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems. A) Consonance. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 6. The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. What two things are being compared in this this sentence? A) Friends to peas. B) Friends to pods. C) Peas to pods. D) Best to friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friends to peas. 7. How the reader feels about a text A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) Emotional Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 8. The repetition of identical or similar sounds in words. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 9. When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Pun. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 11. "I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw." ..... Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone of the passage? A) Threatening. B) Amused. C) Proud. D) Direct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Threatening. 12. An organic poem A) Has fixed rules. B) Does whatever it wishes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does whatever it wishes. 13. Two lines of poetry joined by a similar rhyme A) Meter. B) Two lines. C) Couple. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 14. A pause created within a line of poetry made by inserting a punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period) A) Cutting. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting. 15. A line of poetry that ends with a period, comma, or other method of pause A) Pentameter. B) Lyric. C) Enjambment. D) End-stopped line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End-stopped line. 16. What word means the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. A) Haiku. B) Personification. C) Connotation. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 17. Ballad poem A) A type of poem that is about your feelings and mood. These poems can often be set to music. B) A type of poem that tells a story, usually about love. Ballads usually have a rhyme scheme of ABAB with four lines in each stanza. C) Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). D) The combination of beats throughout a stanza of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A type of poem that tells a story, usually about love. Ballads usually have a rhyme scheme of ABAB with four lines in each stanza. 18. A humorous imitation of an art form A) Tercet. B) Verse. C) Parody. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parody. 19. How an author feels about a subject. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Mood. D) Author's tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author's tone. 20. Which of the two basic elements is the main unit of poems? A) Stanza. B) Imagery. C) Line. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. ← 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