This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 209 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 209 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following is an example of what? I wandered lonely as a cloud. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Exclaiming "Oh great!" after failing an exam A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 3. Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. A) Figurative Language. B) Prose. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 4. Language used for descriptive effect (Not literally true, but expresses figurative meaning) A) Tone. B) Figurative language. C) Irony. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 5. Anapestic meter A) A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. B) Two feet per line. C) A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. D) A poetic meter where each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A poetic meter where each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. 6. ....., or the broad term of something being simply "ironic, " refers to a discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or expected. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Sarcasm. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 7. What is the definition of assonance? A) The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry. B) The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry. C) A person, place, or object that stands for or represents something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry. 8. A word that makes its sound A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 9. What type of figurative language repeats the same sound in multiple words in a line? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. The way in which the words and lines are arranged on the page. A) Pace. B) Stanza. C) Form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 11. These are rhyming words that fall at the end of two or more lines A) Internal rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 12. "she broke in tears when she saw the ring in the box." A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 13. Save money by spending it A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 14. The use of words to achieve some special meaning or effect. A) Figurative language. B) Poetry. C) Style. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 15. "Two roads roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."What poem is this a part of? A) The Road Not Taken by Jack Frost. B) Roads by Robert Frost. C) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. D) The Road Taken by Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. 16. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem (usually at the end of each stanza or verse) is known as a ..... A) Chorus. B) Refrain. C) Near rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 17. Poetry that does not follow a specific form and does not have to rhyme is known as ..... A) Lyrical. B) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 18. Who was Emily Dickinson? A) An American Poet. B) A French Journalist. C) A British Novelist. D) A regular citizen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An American Poet. 19. A haiku should not rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. What is comparing two things using the words "like" or "as" called? A) Theme. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. ← 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