This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 109 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 109 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem with no rhythm or rhyme. A) Lyrical poetry. B) Free verse. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 2. What word means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind. A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 3. What is the term for the use of words to create a picture or image in the reader's mind in a poem? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 4. Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme; more like everyday talk. A) Rhyme. B) Free verse. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 5. A brief, intentional reference, to a famous or well known historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement. Often referenced texts include the Bible and Greek mythology. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 7. Anthropomorphism A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. C) Repetition of accented vowel sounds in a sentence ex) he cried a sigh of high denial. D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. 8. A line of dimeter contains this many feet: A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 9. The ideas and feelings associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 10. A pause in the middle of a line of poetry A) Enjambment. B) Consonance. C) Euphemism. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting. 11. "Using extreme exaggeration to make a point" is a definition of: A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme. A) Concrete. B) Limerick. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 13. Her eyes are as sparkly as a diamond is a A) Smilie. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smilie. 14. The lesson of the poem is that life can feel scary sometimes A) Theme. B) Main Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 15. A group of words together on one line of the poem A) Line. B) Form. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 16. Lines that end with the same sound. A) Free verse. B) Narrative. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 17. What is the figurative meaning of "Winter's icy grip caused people to shudder and flock back to their homes." A) People are playing in the snow. B) People are digging out their cars after a big snowstorm. C) Meterologists are forecasting a big snowstorm is on its way. D) People are hurrying into their homes because of the cold weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People are hurrying into their homes because of the cold weather. 18. How many lines does the poem below have?It came in a winter's night, a fierce cold with quite a bite.Frosted wind with all its mightsent ice and snow an inviteto layer earth in pure whiteand glisten with morning light. A) 6. B) 5. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 19. Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things.ex. The moon was smiling. A) Personification. B) Haiku. C) House. D) Pet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. To dig deep and get a better understanding is to..... A) Explain. B) Answer. C) Guess. D) Analyze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analyze. ← 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