This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 141 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 141 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A statement that seems contradictory (or contrary to common sense) yet, may in fact be true. A) Paradox. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 2. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza is called A) Enjambment. B) Assonance. C) Cutting. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 3. Dactyl A) Stanza of 2 lines. B) Line consisting of 10 syllables. C) Foot consisting of a stress followed by 2 unstressed syllables. D) A deliberate rhetorical, grammatical, or rhythmic pause, break, cut, turn, division, or pivot in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot consisting of a stress followed by 2 unstressed syllables. 4. An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem A) Sonnet. B) Enjambment. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 5. What word means a line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem. A) Denotation. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 6. A pause near the middle of a line A) Cut off. B) Cutting. C) Caesura salad. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cutting. 7. Nine/AlignThrough/Undo are examples of: A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Intonation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 8. ..... is the rhythm or pattern of accented or unaccented syllables in the lines of a poem. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 9. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 10. The repetition of words at the beginning of phrases or sentences is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 11. A phrase that has two opposite words A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 12. The wind whistled through the forest: A) Stanza. B) Internal rhyme. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. The speaker felt sorry because A) He could not see the road well. B) He did not know which direction to go. C) He could not travel down both roads. D) He was tired of traveling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He could not travel down both roads. 14. A sonnet is always 14 lines. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses; the beat of the poem/song A) Rhythm. B) Tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 16. The use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 17. Like paragraphs are part of a story, these are part of a poem; must be at least two lines and is usually separated from other chunks of a text with a space between the lines. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Speaker. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. The way a poem looks on a page. A) Form. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 19. Who was the famous poet that wrote Romeo and Juliet? A) Hannahbanna. B) Shakespeare. C) Anne Klein. D) Betsy Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare. 20. What is an example of metaphor? A) He is a mountain. B) He is as tall as a mountain. C) You're as fast as snake. D) The moon smiled at me. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is a mountain. ← 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