This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 106 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 106 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Verse A) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. B) A comparison not using like or as. C) The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. D) A metric line of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A metric line of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it. 2. A passing reference or indirect mention of something well known that exists outside of the poem A) Allusion. B) Stanza. C) Ode. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. Scenery and props designed and arranged for a particular scene of a play A) Stage directions. B) Setting. C) Set. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Set. 4. What is identified in bold within the section of the poem below? from Poe's "The Raven":Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 5. A comparison using like or as to show a connection A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. What poetic device is used in this example?Five days ago life was perfect. Five days ago she did not have a care in the world. Five days ago everything changed. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 7. Iamb A) Basic unit of a poem. B) Words that sound alike. C) The beat and movement of language. D) Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress. 8. A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Lyric poem. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric poem. 9. A short poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker A) Narrative. B) Dramatic. C) Lyric. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 10. What determines if a syllable is Stressed or Unstressed? A) How much inflection or emphasis is put on the syllable. B) Where it is in the sentence. C) The speakers accent. D) The definition of the word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How much inflection or emphasis is put on the syllable. 11. Written with "you" as the subject; reader is part of the story-weather they wrote it or not; Pronouns:you, your, yours A) 1st Person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd person. 12. Dr. Seuss loved to use what in his stories A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Nonsense words. E) C and D are correct choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) C and D are correct choices. 13. The "dictionary" meaning of words contained in a poem is: A) Denotation. B) Rhythm. C) Connotation. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 14. Which is an example of a "compound word?" A) Burger King. B) Singing. C) Baseball. D) Golden retriever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baseball. 15. Line breaks can be important because they create A) Rhyme. B) They can make the poem look a certain way. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 16. Which vocabulary word is being defined? A three line Japanese verse poem A) Haiku poem. B) Concrete poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku poem. 17. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem usually at the end of a stanza A) Refrain. B) Shift of tone. C) Speaker. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 18. What sound device is used in the following sentence:The bee buzzed around my head. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 19. Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example:Shakespeare's plays A) Assonance. B) Ballad. C) Blank verse. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 20. Repeating a word or phrase A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. ← 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