This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 225 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 225 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a poem does not have a rhyme pattern or a rhythm, it is considered to be ..... A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Free verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 2. Definition:The practice of giving human traits to nonhumans in writing. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. ..... is the pattern of the end rhyme. It is designated by labeling each line with a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme. Example:ABCB, ABCB A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Structure. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 4. Synaesthesia A) The mixing and combining of sensory details. B) The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, according to their choice of words. C) A line of poetry. D) The "turning" point from the problem to the solution of a sonnet, between the octave and the sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mixing and combining of sensory details. 5. The theme of a poem or story can be defined as ..... A) Sensory details that help the reader visualize what is going on in the story. B) The events that occur in a story or poem. C) The conclusion of a poem or story. D) A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. 6. Occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. A) Internal Rhyme. B) Slant Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End Rhyme. 7. Reference to something the author assumes you know. A) Explication. B) Allusion. C) Enjambment. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 8. How fast or slow a poem is read is ..... A) Meter. B) Tone. C) Rhythm. D) Pace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pace. 9. Giving an animal, object, or idea a human quality A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. "Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow" A) Stanza. B) Blank Verse. C) Couplet. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 11. Tells a story and has a plot, character, and setting A) Ballad poem. B) Epic poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poem. 12. Group of verses in a poem A) Stanza. B) Free verse. C) Rhythm. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 13. What do "end rhymes" mean? A) Rhymes at the end of lines. B) Something that stands for something else. C) Giving a nonliving thing qualities of a human. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhymes at the end of lines. 14. The arrangement of a poem on a page A) Stanza. B) Form. C) Free verse. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 15. Repetition of the initial sound of a word. A) Anaphora. B) Syntax. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 16. The car went faster than the speed of light. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. What are the words in blue an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. I'm feeling blue is an example of ..... A) Annotation. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Narrativepoetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 19. What is a "ode" ? A) Type of lyrical poem that address subjects of an elevated stature. B) Lyrically poem written in honour of one who has died. C) Lyrically poem with 14 lines. D) A lengthy elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type of lyrical poem that address subjects of an elevated stature. 20. Metonymy A) A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. B) Three line stanza. C) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). D) A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. ← 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