This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 240 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 240 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/herperspective (uses "I" ). A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 2. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scene. A) Concrete. B) Ballads. C) Limericks. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limericks. 3. A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines. (AABA) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 4. Japanese 3 line poems; follows syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5; about nature A) Haiku. B) Alliteration. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 5. "Each lock lifting me higher, like a 747, ZOOM ZOOM" A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 6. Which of the following is a simile? A) When I squeezed the bag of chips, it went POP and chips were everywhere. B) The kitten is as soft as a cashmere sweater. C) He is a nightmare to deal with. D) Sally sell seashells by the seashore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The kitten is as soft as a cashmere sweater. 7. How many foster kittens does Ms. Cattell have right now? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 8. "two" successive rhyming lines. A) Couplet. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 9. A beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in words A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) Stanza break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 10. Already brushing off the dustis an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 11. Pastoral A) A lyric poem that laments the dead. B) A poem of a single speaker who expresses his thoughts and feelings. C) Literature about country life. D) A style of writing that ridicules human weaknesses to promote social reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literature about country life. 12. What are groups of lines in a poem called? A) Lines. B) Paragraphs. C) Stanzas. D) Rhyming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 13. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of ONLY one character. A) Third Person Point of View. B) Third Person Limited Point of View. C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. D) Third Person Objective Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third Person Limited Point of View. 14. The voice of the story or the narrorator A) Sonnet. B) Speaker. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 15. What type of figurative language in this stanza? "Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen Bells!What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"- "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. ..... sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde A) American. B) English. C) German. D) Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petrarchan. 17. There was a young lady of Nice, Who insisted on bathing in grease.She slid through the houseTormenting her spouseTil he hid in the oven for peace.This is an example of- A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Limerick. D) Joke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 18. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme A) Haiku. B) Cinquain. C) Free verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 19. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings A) Sarcasm. B) Satire. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sarcasm. 20. Based on photos submitted on picture day, there are ..... students in the freshman class. A) 60. B) 63. C) 66. D) 70. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 66. ← 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