This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 92 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A three-line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables. A) Narrative. B) Haiku. C) Lyric. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 2. A type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development but the characters of the story are unaware. A) Sympathetic Character. B) Essay. C) Context. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic Irony. 3. A poem that has no set length, rhythm, or rhyming pattern. A) Lyrical poem. B) Free verse poem. C) Rhyming poem. D) Concrete poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse poem. 4. Giving non human objects people qualities or traits A) Humanifacation. B) Rhyme. C) Narrative poem. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. In the fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf, " a shepherd boy repeatedly tricks people in his village by falsely claiming that a wolf is coming to eat his flock. When a wolf actually comes and the boy cries for help, nobody believes him or comes to his aid. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Lucy warned her youngest son not to cry wolf while wrestling with his older brother. A) To raise a false alarm. B) To make howling sounds. C) To physically become a wolf. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To raise a false alarm. 6. Hendecasyllable A) Line consisting of 6 metrical feet. B) Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress. C) Line consisting of 11 syllables. D) The rhythmic measure of a line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line consisting of 11 syllables. 7. Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A) Haiku. B) Simile. C) Diction. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 8. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 9. When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called A) Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 10. A form of poetry where a single speaker expresses his/her thoughts or feelings. A) Lyric Poetry. B) Couplet. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric Poetry. 11. Define Assonance A) Giving an inanimate object lifelike qualities. B) A close repetition of vowel sounds. C) A line consisting of 11 syllables. D) Repeating lines in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A close repetition of vowel sounds. 12. "I must be cruel to be kind" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 13. Exact time A) Two feet per line. B) A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark. C) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). D) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). 14. The repeating of sound, words, phrases or lines in a poem used to emphasize an idea or convey a certain feeling. A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 15. A 5 line humorous poem with rhyme scheme AABBA A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 16. Characters, settings, images, or other things that stand in for bigger ideas beyond their literal meaning. A) Diction. B) Symbol. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 17. An implied analogy or comparison which is carried through a stanza or entire poem A) Irony. B) Cutting. C) Elegy. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conceit. 18. The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Character. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 19. A figure of speech and form of irony in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. Stanzaic A) Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject. B) One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. C) The visible shape or configuration of something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. ← 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