This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 151 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 151 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two line stanza A) Structure. B) Quatrain. C) Lines. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 2. A poem that is about only one specific thing that the author thinks is truly amazing and praiseworthy This type of poem can be centered upon an object, an idea, or even a person A) Ode. B) Understatement. C) Overstatement. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 3. Central message the poet gives the reader A) Theme. B) Poem. C) Moral. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. A) Pun. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. "I wonder why I always want water on Wednesdays." is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) End rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. What do you call the author of the poem? A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 7. When the poet describes one object or idea by comparing it to another object or idea. "Life is a highway." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Exaggerations, can be funny at times A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 9. A line of poetry having ten syllables (five feet) in iambic meter. (Much of Shakespeare's poetry is written in this). A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic Pentameter. 10. "Chocolate is chocolatey" is a metaphor A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. A line of poetry containing four metrical feet A) Dimeter. B) Octameter. C) Tetrameter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tetrameter. 12. What is the difference between DENOTATION and CONNOTATION? A) C-literal meaning of the word; D-secondary meaning of a word. B) C-abstract meaning of the word; D-secondary meaning of a word. C) D-dictionary meaning of the word; C-abstract meaning of the word. D) C-literal meaning of the word; D-secondary meaning of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D-dictionary meaning of the word; C-abstract meaning of the word. 13. Universal idea of a work of literature; the meaning behind the obvious A) Lesson. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 14. Giving human-like characteristics to a non-human thing. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Language not meant to be taken literally A) Imagery. B) Figurative. C) Literal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 16. "Paula Prue, I'm mad at you" The above verse contains ..... rhyme. A) Internal. B) End. C) Partial. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 17. A poem expressing grief over someone who has died is a ..... A) Couplett. B) Elegy. C) Limerick. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 18. Which word is defined as "a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)" ? A) Autobiography. B) Nonfiction. C) Fantasy. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 19. A stanza in poetry is ..... A) A single line. B) A group of lines arranged together (like a paragraph). C) A refrain. D) A limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of lines arranged together (like a paragraph). 20. The way the speaker sounds A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Stanza. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. ← 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