This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 145 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 145 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why is white space important in a poem? A) It contributes to the meaning of the poem. B) It shows that there is a change in the writing. C) It adds a musical feel to the poem. D) It contributes to the mood of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It shows that there is a change in the writing. 2. The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story, poem, play, etc. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 3. Poem paragraph/groups of lines in a poem A) Free verse. B) Sensory detail. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 4. Emotional environment or atmosphere created by poet A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Muse. D) Pathos. E) Persona (voice). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 5. Reversal of the usual order of words A) Imagery. B) Inversion. C) Lyric poetry. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inversion. 6. Use of images to describe something in a way that helps the reader visualize (or see) what is happening. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 7. "I am one of many small branches of a broken tree" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. The poet's attitude towards his/her subject or audience. A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. Poets use this to create images, draw connections and provoke emotions for the reader. A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Figurative Language. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 10. A word created for humor or to rhyme A) Nonce. B) Nonsense. C) Narrative. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonce. 11. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex:A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 12. The art of expressing one's thoughts in verse. Written in lines and stanzas, with a lot of white space on the page. A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Mood. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 13. Something that stands for or represents something else A) Idiom. B) Stanza. C) Alliteration. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 14. Uses words with identical end sound A) Slant rhyme. B) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exact rhyme. 15. Ideas and feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition A) Denotation. B) Alliteration. C) Connotation. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 16. When Carrie Newcomer says, "Sunlight, and blueberries, Good dogs and wool socks" or "The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond, " she is appealing to your five senses which is called ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 17. This is an extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. ..... the pattern of rhyme formed by the end rhyme in a poem. The ..... is designated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme. A) Riming. B) Scheme Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Sing-Song. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 19. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things that share similar characteristics (does not use "like" or "as" ) A) Similarly. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. Use of any element of language more than once A) Symbol. B) Assonance. C) Syntax. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. ← 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