This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 105 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 105 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most simple/central unit of a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 2. The person who wrote the poem is the A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Author. D) Reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet. 3. Type of writing in which rhythm and sounds of words are as important as their definitions A) Novel. B) Short Story. C) Poetry. D) A play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 4. The rhyming of words within a line of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 5. It is a poem of 17 syllables A) Elegy. B) Haiku. C) Sonnet. D) Song. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 6. What is the term for the overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem? A) Rhythm. B) Mood. C) Temperature. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 7. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of a- A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. What is a literary device that is the repetition of sound that is identical or similar? A) Rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Analogy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 9. Allegory A) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. B) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. C) A poem written in a 5 7 5 pattern. The numbers represent the number of syllables in each line. D) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. 10. This is the general definition of a comparison of any two things A) Analogy. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 11. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in poem A) Idiom. B) Stanza. C) Lyric. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 12. Comparing two things that are similar using like or as A) Beat. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Ask. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 13. In addition to the required villanelle, a student also could have written a ..... poem for the other one due by Friday, Nov. 19. A) Ode. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) Name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 14. When a poet says one thing but means something else A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 15. 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 16. Indicates the author's attitude, mood, or feelings towards their subject A) Poetry. B) Tone. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 17. The "feeling" created in the reader by a literary work or passage A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Stanza. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 18. Which one tells a story? A) Tribute Poem. B) Elegy. C) Free Verse. D) Narrative Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative Poem. 19. A type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. This happens when the final CONSONANT sounds are similar, but the ending VOWEL sounds are different. This is also known as imperfect rhyme A) Alliteration. B) Internal rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant rhyme. 20. A rhythmic pattern of unstressed-stressed syllables A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Blank verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. ← 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