This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 179 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 179 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ordinary form of written language that uses sentences and paragraphs. A) Prose. B) Narrative. C) Lyric. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 2. Words that end in the same sounds A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Poetry. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. Lines or words are repeated in a poem A) Repetition. B) Meter. C) Rhyming pattern. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 4. An example of onomatopoeia would be A) What?. B) Ouch!. C) I do not think that word means what you think it means. D) Sizzle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sizzle. 5. Shakespeare wrote 154 of these types of poems. They are often about love and contain 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme. A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Acrostic. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 6. A poem that contains dialogue, two or more people talking A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 7. Sending A) A brief ending (usually to a ballade or sestina) no more than 4 lines long; summary. B) A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section. C) A deliberate rhetorical, grammatical, or rhythmic pause, break, cut, etc. D) Foot consisting of 2 unstressed syllables followed by a stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A brief ending (usually to a ballade or sestina) no more than 4 lines long; summary. 8. Correspondence of sounds A) Scansion. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 9. In general, the repetition of the syllables at the end of a line of verse or poetry. (Words that have the same sound when spoken.) A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 10. A poem that does not use rhymes or patterns A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Free Verse. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 11. This is an example of:The sun is shining on my son. A) Paradox. B) Palindrome. C) Pun. D) Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 12. ..... is a type of rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines. A) Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End Rhyme. 13. A songlike narrative poem, usually written in rhymed stanzas of four to six lines that feature repetition and strong meter A) Ballad. B) Formal verse. C) Blank verse. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 14. What type of poem is this?That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou see'st the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.In me thou see'st the glowing of such fireThat on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. A) Sonnet. B) Free verse. C) Couplet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 15. Feelings or ideas associated with a word. (positive, negative, or neutral words) A) Context. B) Tone/Connotation. C) Rhyme. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone/Connotation. 16. What is mood in poetry? A) A phrase that means something different from what is literally said. B) When a word, line, or stanza repeats over and over. C) Is a poetic device that is used at the end of a line, and the beginning of the next line in a poem. D) A feeling created by the poet for the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A feeling created by the poet for the reader. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds in a word or nearby words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Cliche. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 18. Making a direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Stanza. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. Attitude a writer or speaker takes towards a poem A) Mood. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. Connotation A) A natural pause/break within poetry lines, usually near the middle. B) Emotional implication, suggestion or association of a word ex) "home" denotes where one lives, but connotation means security & family. C) Most crucial line(s) in a poem, the part that best shows the main point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional implication, suggestion or association of a word ex) "home" denotes where one lives, but connotation means security & family. ← 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