This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 248 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 248 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 14 line poem A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 2. Poem that is a story, with conflict, setting etc. Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot is a ..... A) Lyric Poem. B) Narrative Poem. C) Sonnet Poem. D) Haiku Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative Poem. 3. ..... is not the main idea of the text, but the author's intent for writing the piece A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Author's Purpose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's Purpose. 4. Figurative language is used only in poetry A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Both boys and girls basketball teams open the season against the same opponent. Who? A) Wheaton. B) Purdy. C) Exeter. D) Verona. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exeter. 6. Bed Bugs Bite Businessmen The threat of bed bugs is now seen as one of the biggest hazards to business travel as the unwelcome pests have become a growing problem for the hotels of major cities. "I miss the old days when it was just the rats and cockroaches that we had to worry about, " one longtime life insurance salesman said wistfully. What type of figurative language is used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. The repetition of usually unstressed similar endings in proximal words, as in the phrase "rising with the dawning morning" is known as A) Instress. B) Homoioteleuton. C) Spurious. D) Jump rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homoioteleuton. 8. A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem A) Line. B) Paragraph. C) Poem. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 9. Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. What poem uses figurative language in a particularly structured way to express an idea? A) Ode. B) Elegy. C) Aubade. D) Cinquain. E) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cinquain. 11. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 12. Imagery is language that creates a picture. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. The main message of a poem is: A) The theme or lesson in a poem. B) What the poet does when reading. C) How you feel after reading the poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The theme or lesson in a poem. 14. Poems that don't rhyme or have a rhythm (beat) to it. A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Acrostic. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 15. What technique shows the repetition of the same sound? A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. A poem about loss or death. A) Narrative. B) Elegy. C) Free verse. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 17. Mom was a busy beaver as she prepared for the holiday party. What are the words in blue an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. What is is a verse, a line or a group of lines that repeats at regular intervals? A) Verse. B) Refrain. C) Irony. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 19. Slows the reader and brings attention to individual words and phrases A) Stanza. B) End rhyme. C) Line breaks. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line breaks. 20. What words do you look at to find out the rhyme scheme? A) The very first word in each line. B) The middle word in each line. C) The very last word in each line. D) The last word in every other line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The very last word in each line. ← 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