This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many syllables are in each line of a Sonnet A) 10. B) 8. C) 12. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 2. Use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 3. Which is the correct defintion of Hyperbole? A) Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect. B) A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. C) A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. D) Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect. 4. What is the main problem in a drama? A) Act. B) Conflict. C) Crew. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 5. Poetry that doesn't rhyme or have a regular meter is called? A) Diamante. B) Sonnet. C) Free Verse. D) Haiku. E) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 6. Repetition of sounds at the end of words A) Homonym. B) Lyric. C) Prose. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 7. Which is the correct spelling? A) Metaphor. B) Metaphor. C) Metaphore. D) Metiphore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Involves one or more of your five senses-the abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see. An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses and to help create mental pictures. A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. Which figure of speech is exemplified by the word 'buzz'? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 10. Line break A) Where the poet chooses to end one line and start writing on another. B) A type of poetry that does not have any rhyme, meter patterns, or specific format. C) Not taken literally. D) A "poetry paragraph". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where the poet chooses to end one line and start writing on another. 11. Iambic A) A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. B) Ten syllables of poetry in one line of poetry. C) Words that evoke pictures and trigger the mind's memories. D) A foot of unstressed stressed poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A foot of unstressed stressed poetry. 12. What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words that are close together? A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. Which word is defined as "one of the parts of a poem or song, poetry paragraph" ? A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Line. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 14. Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean are called:Examples:Boom, POP, Fizz, BANG! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. Rhythm A) Being able to play the drums good. B) The combination of beats throughout a stanza of poetry. C) Being able to dance to the beat. D) When an author rhymes at the end of poetic lines, creating a pattern for the reader to follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The combination of beats throughout a stanza of poetry. 16. As Starbucks Crew Lead, Kelly has ..... over the team when the Manager is gone. A) Discord. B) Dominion. C) Dismay. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dominion. 17. Referring to a line of poetry. A) Sentence. B) Narrative. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 18. Haiku poems originated in A) China. B) Japan. C) Australia. D) The United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Japan. 19. What is the figurative language in this line? "But let the world dream otherwise" A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. When one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books