This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 224 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 224 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A wedding ring is an example of ..... ? A) Irony. B) Sensory Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 2. The first consonant sound of a word is repeated two or more times. (The Wiggly Worm) A) Metaphors. B) Alliteration. C) Similes. D) Italics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. Matching ending sounds in words or sometimes lines of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Lines. C) Simile. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 4. Imagery in poetry is language that appeals to ..... A) Sight. B) Sound. C) All senses. D) Smell. E) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All senses. 5. The repeating of words of phrases or sounds within a short span of text A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Mood. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 6. Clerihew A) Poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching. B) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. C) Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). D) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. 7. ..... is the feeling or atmosphere perceived by the reader. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 8. A long, poetic speech in theater and in plays that is spoken by one character in front of other characters. A) Couplet. B) Diction. C) Dramatic monologue. D) End-stopped line:. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic monologue. 9. The truth of life revealed through literature A) Climax. B) Story. C) Theme. D) Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 10. How many lines does a Sonnet have? A) 10. B) 12. C) 13. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 11. What is the definition of a theme? A) Descriptive words used to help the reader visualize what is happening. B) The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse. C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. D) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. 12. What is an example of repetition? A) The door went BAM! when it was shut. B) She looked at the card and laughed and smiled. C) Was it him? Was it him? Was it him?. D) The good cook cooked cookies like a good cook should. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was it him? Was it him? Was it him?. 13. When a rhyme occurs WITHIN a line of poetry, it is called? A) End rhymes. B) Approximate rhymes. C) Exact rhymes. D) Internal rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhymes. 14. Different sense from its proper use ex) metaphor, synecdoche A) Trope. B) Archetype. C) Canan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trope. 15. An unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature; it is a poem with 3 lines, it has a total of 17 syllables, line 1 has 5 syllables, line 2 has 7 syllables, and line 3 has 5 syllables. A) Title. B) Haiku. C) Simile. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 16. The repeating of a word or phrase. A) Stanza. B) Synecdoche. C) Repetition. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 17. Which of the following best describes a theme of "The Road Not Taken" ? A) Sometimes one must make a choice without knowing if it will be best and live with the consequences. B) There will always be decisions in life, but one can return and make the decision differently if one makes a mistake. C) Following one's heart is easier than following one's head, but since decisions don't really matter it is best to follow one's heart. D) Making the most common or popular decisions ensures that one will take the correct path through life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sometimes one must make a choice without knowing if it will be best and live with the consequences. 18. How is poetry written? (structure) A) Sentences & paragraphs. B) Sentences. C) Lines and paragraphs. D) Lines and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines and stanzas. 19. "Her skin was white as snow" is an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Algorithm. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. When a poem just briefly mentions a famous or well known person, place, or event, it is using the device named this. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. 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