This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 213 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 213 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What gives a character, place, or object a deeper meaning? Example:The color white represents purity. A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 2. 5 lines A) Couplet. B) Cinquain. C) Seven. D) Third. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinquain. 3. How many stanzas are there? A blue day A blue jay And a good beginning. One crow, Melting snow-Spring's winning! By Eleanor Farjeon A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 4. A poem in which a word or phrase is spelled vertically using the first letter of each line A) Alliteration. B) Acrostic. C) Symbol. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 5. What is a "elegy" ? A) Lyrical poem in honour of someone who has died. B) Poem where speaker converses with the reader and s/he reveals events. C) Lyrical poem with 14 lines. D) A poem that tells a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical poem in honour of someone who has died. 6. Refers to repeated sounds, words, phrases, lines used for emphasis A) Repetition. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. A kind of figurative language in which an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. The person that narrates the poem A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 9. Creative language or figures of speech used in poetry or prose A) Figurative language. B) Rhythm. C) Internal rhyme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 10. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or song A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme scheme. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 11. A poem that lacks the line breaks traditionally associated with poetry (a poem written in sentences and paragraphs) A) Prose. B) Narrative poem. C) Free verse. D) Blue poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 12. A book of poems by different poets A) Form. B) Anthology. C) Free verse. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthology. 13. Using words with the same beginning sound to highlight key words, make a poem memorable, or create a feeling or moodis called A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. Words that have the same end sound, but are not spelled the same at the end of the words. A) End Rhyme. B) Half Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Empty Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Half Rhyme. 15. A poem with fixed rules made up of rhythm and/or rhyme scheme is ..... A) Shakespearean. B) A sonnet. C) Traditional. D) Organic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 16. This signals one stanza has ended and a new one is beginning. A) Poetry. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Stanza break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza break. 17. The feeling the poet is trying to convey A) Mood. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 18. A type of poem that tells a story. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Ballad. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 19. The beat created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in words A) Meter. B) Lines. C) Rhythm. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 20. Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of two or more clauses or lines. A) Consonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Anahora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anahora. ← 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