This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 136 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 136 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. Often an amplification of the original phrase/idea for the purpose of clarity. A) Parallelism. B) Paraphrase. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paraphrase. 2. The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence-more than once (think of the chorus of a song) A) Consonance. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem? A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Stanza. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 4. A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas ans usually having a refrain. A) Epic. B) Ballad. C) Personification. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 5. Has the following elements:Paragraphs, setting and characters. A) Poetry. B) Figurative Language. C) Prose. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 6. Use of any element of language more than once, used for musical effects and for emphasis A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Figurative language. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. "The loud brown cow" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 8. Voice that talks to the reader A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Narrator. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 9. A poem whose words are arranged in the shape of the subject of the poem A) Couplet. B) Concrete. C) Acrostic. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concrete. 10. What is "a fixed pattern of accented and unaccounted syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm" ? A) Rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Free Verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 11. Comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. Trope A) The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile and metaphors. B) A generic name for a long poem that has no meaning. C) A generic name for all the different words that exist in the human language. D) The generic name of a brand name food like Clorox or Kneanex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile and metaphors. 13. Group of words together on one line of the poem A) Stanza. B) Form. C) Line. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 14. What is the definition of "ode" ? A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful and exalted feelings towards the subject. B) A verse with five poetic feet per line. C) A poem or speech expressing sorrow. D) The grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful and exalted feelings towards the subject. 15. A figure of speech where exaggeration is used to emphasize a point A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Understatement. D) Overstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overstatement. 16. A comparison in which one thing is written about as if it were another WITHOUT the use of like or as is A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. A lyric poem of 14 lines is called ..... A) Syllogism. B) Haiku. C) Sonnet. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 18. Pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 19. A writer's choice of words A) Diction. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Structure. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 20. Stanza structure in poetry can be best defined as ..... A) The number of lines in poetry. B) The arrangement of lies into groups, separated by an empty line-similar to verses, or paragraphs. C) The arrangement of rhyme patterns found in paragraphs of poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The arrangement of lies into groups, separated by an empty line-similar to verses, or paragraphs. ← 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