This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 174 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 174 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words that are used to imitate sounds. Words sound like the noises they describe A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. The beauty of thought and language is called A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 3. Rhymes as ABAB CDCD EFEF A) Complete rhyme. B) Partial rhyme. C) Enclosed rhyme. D) Alternate rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alternate rhyme. 4. What is the definition of a mood? A) How the reader feels. B) The poet's attitude about the poem's topic or subject. C) The name of the poem. D) Language that is not literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How the reader feels. 5. The beat that helps shape a poem's meaning and structure. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 6. Extravagant exaggeration used for humor or effect A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 7. When we make an ..... we read a poem and take out the meaning. A) Free Verse. B) Verse. C) Theme. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inference. 8. He didn't want to eat ..... A) Anything. B) Anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anything. 9. How the poem makes the reader feel. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Poet. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 10. A poem that tells a story is called a- A) Rhyming poem. B) Lyric poem. C) Narrative story. D) Drama poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative story. 11. A group of words arranged in a row. When using as evidence in an essay, these are broken by slashes. A) Line. B) Row. C) Cesura. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 12. A type of poem where one or more of the characters speak. The "speakers" is someone other than the poet. A) Lyrical. B) Dramatic. C) Blank Verse. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic. 13. Used by poets to convey a poem's meaning and mood A) Sound device. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound device. 14. What is the correct definition of rhyme? A) The repetition of the ending sounds of words at the end of the lines. B) The flow of the beat in a poem. C) Occurs when words, phrases, or lines are repeated in a poem. D) Make up each stanza of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of the ending sounds of words at the end of the lines. 15. A section of a play where a specific action takes place is called ..... A) A chapter. B) A scene. C) Per room. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A scene. 16. Words that appeal to the senses (see, touch, feel, hear, sounds, taste, smell) A) Tempo. B) Volume. C) Tone. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 17. "My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of: A) Antonym. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas with a rhyme scheme is a? A) Berries and cream. B) Little lad. C) Ballad. D) Ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 19. A group of related lines in a poem A) Stanza. B) Lines. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 20. A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse. C) Iambic pentameter. D) 14 line poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. ← 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