This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 119 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 119 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A ..... poem is in the shape of its topic. A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Concrete. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 2. Sensory Language A) Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. B) Writing that is not meant to be taken literally. C) An indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance. D) Use of words that imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. 3. A group of words in a row. A) Form. B) Meter. C) Couplet. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 4. A literary work written in verse format A) Tone. B) Narrative Poem. C) Imagery. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poem. 5. A comparison of two things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Love is a tornado. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. What is end rhyme? A) The pattern of rhyme with other lines in a poem or stanza. B) The rhyming words within 1 line of poetry. C) The rhyming words at the end of two or more lines. D) This is created by words that have different beginning sounds but whose ending sound the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rhyming words at the end of two or more lines. 8. A literary genre characterized by rhythmical patterns of language A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Fiction. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 9. Which term means comparing two unlike things using like or as? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Rhythm. B) Cesura. C) Alliteration. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 11. Narrative poems are poems that A) Talk about nature. B) Tell a story. C) Celebrate a person. D) Give detailed imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tell a story. 12. A regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of certain poems; made up of groupings called "feet" A) Meter. B) Consonance. C) Personification. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 13. Iambic meter A) Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. B) Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). C) Meter consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. D) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. 14. A kind of poem that follows a set of rules, such as a limerick, haiku, or sonnet, is ..... A) Traditional poem. B) Free verse. C) Partner poem. D) Spot poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional poem. 15. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of a word A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.' What object is being personified in the sentence? A) Clouds. B) Winked. C) Say. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moon. 17. A comparison of two different things, using either "as" or "like" A) Simile. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. This is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable A) Trochee. B) Beat. C) Iamb. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trochee. 19. Someone who is ..... usually works hard to succeed. A) Memorized. B) Satisfaction. C) Ambitious. D) Shuddered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambitious. 20. Personification, what is it? A) Giving safa human abilities. B) Giving sebi animal abilities. C) Giving animals sebi's abilities. D) Giving an inanimate object human abilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Giving an inanimate object human abilities. ← 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