This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The attitude of a writer towards a subject, character, or audience A) Rhyme. B) Tone. C) Intonation. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 2. 'Burbled' is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syllable. 4. Poems that do not have a regular rhyming pattern are called A) Open poems. B) Boring poems. C) A story poem. D) Free verse poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poems. 5. Units of rhythm in poetry A) Archetype. B) Enjambment. C) Motif. D) Metrics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metrics. 6. Poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation A) Ode. B) Elegy. C) Free verse. D) Ballad poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 7. The repetition of a CONSONANT sound. A) Assonance. B) Mood. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 8. A matching similarity of sounds in two or more words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 9. What figure of speech or poetic device is the following:'This test will be a piece of cake!' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. What is:a reference to another well known work of literature, event in history, or pop culture? A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Illusion. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 11. A three-line stanza with rhymes aba, bcb, cdc, such as used in Dante's Divine Comedy A) Sonnet. B) Third rime. C) Rhyme royal. D) Villanelles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third rime. 12. What is something that stands in for something else? A) Symbol. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 13. "The stars in the sky winked, " is an example of what? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. All sonnets have how many lines? A) 14. B) 12. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 15. Words that mean more than their literal meaning A) Poem. B) Figurative language. C) Metaphor. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 16. A form of writing that is imaginative, emotional and thought provoking. A) Poetry. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 17. A division within a poem, like a paragraph for poetry A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. Dactylic meter A) A harsh mixture of conflicting noises. B) Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter. C) A word that imitates the sound it represents. D) Meter consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. 19. What is internal rhyme? A) Where two words rhyme at the end of lines in poetry. B) Where two words in the same line rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where two words in the same line rhyme. 20. She sells seashells by the seashore. This is an example of- A) Personification. B) Haiku. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. ← 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