This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 155 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 155 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This type of poetry consists of two rhyming lines together. It can be one pair of lines, or a longer poem made of many rhyming pairs. A) Couplet poem. B) A poem of fifty. C) Sonnet. D) Acrostic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet poem. 2. What is the definition of meter? A) Stressed and Unstressed syllables in a pattern. B) The main idea. C) The atmosphere the poet creates. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stressed and Unstressed syllables in a pattern. 3. What is the correct term for the following definition? The repetition of initial consonant sounds:Feramisco's funny family photos. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. Which type of poem originated in Japan? A) Haiku. B) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 5. My house is a friend who protects me. The moon played hide and seek with the clouds. The approaching car's headlights winked at me are examples of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or "turn" of thought in its concluding lines. A) Sonnet. B) Speaker. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 7. What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable? A) Trochee. B) Spondee. C) Anapest. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dactyl. 8. The idea or feeling that people associate with a word; a word's secondary meaning. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Enjambment. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 9. Relates a story in verse or a poem that tells a story The word is ..... A) Narrative poem. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative poem. 10. A direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as (x=y) is called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. What is a line in a poem? A) A paragraph in a poem. B) A group of words that go across in a poem. C) A stanza in a poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of words that go across in a poem. 12. Songlike poetry that uses alot of figurative language. Many time it rhymes. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Lyrical poetry. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyrical poetry. 13. Direct comparison often using "is" or "was" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. They are paragraphs for a poem, or verses for a song ..... A) Similes. B) Stanzas. C) Metaphor. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. 15. Which is the correct defintion of stanza? A) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. B) Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions. C) Two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. D) Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. 16. Joe does know how the song should go. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 17. The Culture's Created meaning for a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 18. What is METER in poetry? A) A way to measure an object. B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables used to create rhythm in a poem. C) When words rhyme in a poem. D) When a poem makes you laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables used to create rhythm in a poem. 19. Which of the following is NOT a prose? A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". B) "Sahar and the Tiger Cub". C) "Stopping a Toppling Tower". D) "How Candy Conquered America". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". 20. What is the following statement an example of? Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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