This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 169 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 169 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following includes an example of hyperbole? A) The dog ran swiftly across the park. B) The mosquito buzzed around my ear. C) It took forever to finish my test. D) The clouds marched across the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It took forever to finish my test. 2. The meaning of the poem for the reader to figure out. A) Figurative Language. B) Hyperbole. C) Meter. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Message. 3. What kind of poem (or sentence) might be written on a person's headstone which marks their grave? A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Black out poem. D) Epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epitaph. 4. A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. A stanza with 4 lines A) Simile. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 6. Two lines which form their own stanza and rhyme: A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Internal rhyme. D) A very short poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 7. Why does the author of a poem structure the text in a certain way? A) Because of a change in mood/feeling. B) To allow the reader to take a breath in between stanzas. C) Because a different/new action is taking place. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are correct. 8. A comparison of unlike things A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. Way of speaking to a native speaker, not meaning what you literally say A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 10. An example of what literary term is in lines 3-4?A short while later, through the wood, Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood, The wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze, And yellowish, like mayonnaise. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Sensory language. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory language. 11. This has two rhyming lines; however, the first line is longer than the second line. The first line has 5 stressed syllables and the second line has 2 A) Couplet. B) Line breaks. C) Split couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Split couplet. 12. Using objects to represent ABSTRACT qualities or themes A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Illusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 13. A figure of speech which compared two unlike objects without using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 14. A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 15. A silly poem with a sing-song rhythm and this rhyme scheme:AABBA. A) Limerick. B) Lyric. C) Haiku. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 16. Which of the following is not an example of an allusion? A) His wife was his Achille's heel. B) He lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's. C) She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden. D) We'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. 17. A person who reads the poem out loud A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Narrator. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 18. What is the definition of Literal Language? A) Language meant to be understood EXACTLY as it is written. B) The patter of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) Four line stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language meant to be understood EXACTLY as it is written. 19. A kind of verse that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend, often has a repeated refrain and is about love, MOST often adapted for singing A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Syllables. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 20. A set pattern of rhyme is called (ababcdcd) etc A) Meter. B) Feet. C) Iamb. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. ← 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