This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 203 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 203 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a writer compares one thing to another. A) Meter. B) Metaphor. C) Ode. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. The use of words to imitate sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. Lines of a poem that are separated into groups A) Form. B) Imagery. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 4. A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something else. A) Theme. B) Rhyme. C) Symbol. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 5. The vantage point from which a narrative is told The first person, third person (limited or omniscient) A) Imagery. B) Point of View. C) Ballad. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of View. 6. Poetic form reforms to a poem's A) Structure (the way it is written). B) Subject matter (what it is about). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structure (the way it is written). 7. A poem that uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line A) Acrostic. B) Sonnet. C) Concrete. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrostic. 8. A group of lines in poetry, typically more than two, that form the basic unit of the poem. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Free verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 9. A poem where the first letter of each line form a word or phrase when read together. A) Sonnet. B) Concrete. C) Narrative Poem. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acrostic. 10. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human A) Personification. B) Sensory Language. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Form means A) Repeated sounds in two or more words. B) A poem's meter. C) The overall structure of a poem. D) A single line in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The overall structure of a poem. 12. What is the attitude of the author toward a subject or an audience? A) Stanza. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 13. An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. A pattern of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups of lines is called a ..... A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 15. The writer's attitude towards his or her subject. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 16. Lines 1 & 4 rhyme, and lines 2 & 3 rhyme A) Rhyming Pattern ABCB. B) Rhyming Pattern ABAB. C) Rhyming Pattern AABB. D) Rhyming Pattern ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming Pattern ABBA. 17. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 18. The beat of a poem or song, created by stressed and unstressed syllables A) Repetition. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 19. What is the correct term for the following definition? Compares unlikely things to help readers see them in a new way/carries a metaphor through the entire poem or, at least, a long part of it. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Form. D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. 20. Which of the following contains a PUN? A) Broken pencils are pointless. B) I have a dog named Kip. C) McDonalds fries are delicious. D) Our class loves ice cream. . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broken pencils are pointless. ← 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