This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 195 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 195 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the use of words that imitate the sounds they describe? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. Which of the following is the definition of a simile? A) When an author gives human characteristics to an inanimate object. B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. 3. How a poem or text appears to be organized on paper; its shape A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Form. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 4. Groups of lines, similar to paragraphs A) Stanza. B) Paragraph. C) Lines. D) Pages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 5. What is the definition of a stanza? A) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. B) The name of a poem. C) A unit of language created to divide a poem. D) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A group of lines together, also known as a poem paragraph. 6. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #5 What is the mood/ tone of this poem? A) Misery. B) Happiness. C) Anger. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misery. 7. A short humorous poem. It is five lines long with a specific rhyme scheme. A) Limerick. B) Lyric. C) Acrostic. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 8. Rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry A) Internal rhyme. B) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 9. The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences in a language. A) Epistrophe. B) Syntax. C) Anaphora. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 10. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called ..... A) The iamb. B) A foot. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The iamb. 11. Words that sound like what they mean. A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. This is a type of poetry which does not rhyme, but contains meter. A) Blank verse. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Open form. D) Sestina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 13. Choose the metaphor A) His room needed to be clean. B) I am not feeling well today. C) She was a volcano ready to explode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was a volcano ready to explode. 14. A ..... is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin. A) Line Break. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 15. All the emotions and feelings associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 16. There is only one example of imagery; the rest are examples of figurative language. Choose the imagery example. A) Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef. B) The boy stood there, taut as a drawn arrow. C) The mutter of the sea at sunset. D) The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water. 17. The use of ordinary language is called A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Prose. D) SIFT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 18. The way a poet/speaker feels about the topic of the poem A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Metered. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 19. The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. It's the lesson or moral of the story. A) Meter. B) Diction. C) Assonance. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 20. This is an example of a:While the smoothest stones Try to skip and hop across, The pond claims them all A) Haiku. B) Elegy. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. ← 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