This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 116 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 116 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem with 3 lines with 5 syllables, then 7 syllables, then 5 syllables is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Free verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 2. What is the opposite of hyperbole? A) Overstatement. B) Misstatement. C) Understatement. D) Reinstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 3. The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associationsapart from its literal meaning. A) Denotation. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 4. Four-line stanza A) Quatrain. B) Narrative. C) Prose. D) Cocophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 5. A 4 line stanza A) Quatrain. B) Four. C) Sestet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 6. Identify the Simile below ..... A) The tree danced in the wind. B) She is as tall as a tree!. C) That cat is the devil. D) My backpack weighs a thousand tons!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is as tall as a tree!. 7. The flor of the beat in a poem A) Meter. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 8. Grammatical structures of sentences and phrases A) Syntax. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 9. A comparison between two things (WITHOUT using "like" or "as" ); saying one thing IS another A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem A) Image. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 11. What is a rhyme? A) A single line in a poem. B) A group of lines in a poem. C) Words that have the same ending sound. D) The break down of how words are pronounced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words that have the same ending sound. 12. We can feel and understand this part of poetry in songs and dance. Pattern of strong and weak stresses on words to give A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 13. A type of poetry that exhibits poetic language but does not follow fixed patterns A) Free verse. B) Ballads. C) Odes. D) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 14. Describes one things as if it were something else. A) Imagery. B) Figurative language. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. What is the definition of a rhythm? A) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. B) The poet's attitude about the poem's topic or subject. C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. D) Language that is not literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. 16. Synesthesia A) Repeating pattern of accented/unaccented syllables poetry lines. B) Type of irony where it appears to be praising something while actually insulting the thing. C) Object, person, place, action that means something/represents something larger than its self. D) Description of 1 kind of sense impression normally used to describe a different sense ex) sweet voice, velvety smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Description of 1 kind of sense impression normally used to describe a different sense ex) sweet voice, velvety smile. 17. Choose the clue words that indicate compare and contrast. A) Therefore, cause, effect, consequently. B) Later, then, next, Monday. C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. D) Possibility, struggle, hope, problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. 18. Bonus:Verb Tense A) The repetition of similar sounds. B) Who is telling the story?. C) Past, present, or future, when the events in the poem happened. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past, present, or future, when the events in the poem happened. 19. What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses? A) Stanza. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Optical illusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. The author's message or insight about a topic A) Sonnet. B) Topic. C) Metaphor. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. ← 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