This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 193 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poetry that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called ..... A) Free verse. B) Humorous poetry. C) Narrative poetry. D) Lyrical poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poetry. 2. Which type of writing is written in stanzas? A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 3. Match the word to the definition:the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words A) Consonance. B) Dissonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 4. A lyric poem of fourteen lines commonly written in iambic pentameter. A) Ode. B) Ballad. C) Lyric. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 5. The attitude that the AUTHOR has towards a subject is A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Opinion. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once. A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. What is the voice of who's telling the poem like the narrator in a story? A) Stanza. B) Audience. C) Anaphora. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 8. When two (or more) words make the same sound at the end of the word. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 9. An elegy is a poem of ..... reflection, typically for the dead. A) Funny. B) Silly. C) Deadly. D) Serious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serious. 10. ..... is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases several times to make an idea clearer and more emphatic. A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 11. Language that appeals to the five senses-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; sensory detail A) Idiom. B) Symbol. C) Imagery. D) Spidey-sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. The author's right to break the rules of proper writing in order to achieve an effect or get a point across. A) Poetic Licence. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic Licence. 13. When referring to writing choices made in the poem, you refer to the A) Speaker. B) Creator. C) Narrator. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet. 14. What word is defined as "a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them" ? A) Homophone. B) Idiom. C) Analogy. D) Homograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 15. What is the attitude of the author toward the audience, the characters, the subject, or the work itself? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 16. Poem that forms the shape of a diamond A) Limerick. B) Free verse. C) Refrain. D) Diamonte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diamonte. 17. ..... is when words have the same ending sounds. A) Lines. B) Stanzas. C) Rhyming. D) Line breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming. 18. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form-usually lines and stanzas. A) Figurative language. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 19. He's as strong as an ox A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. A poem, discourse, or utterance of a character in a drama that has the form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. ← 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