This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 257 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 257 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of the same word or phrase multiple times A) Repetition. B) Repeating. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 2. Language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her mind, what the writer is describing. A) Poetry. B) Imagery. C) Form. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 3. Which of these is a good "symbol" for love? A) A Heart. B) A Mustache. C) A Waterfall. D) A knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Heart. 4. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats of a poem A) Meter. B) Repetition. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 5. Which kind of poemspells out a piece of a word at the beginning of each line? A) Black out poem. B) Acrostic poem. C) Limerick. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic poem. 6. The literary term "diction" refers to A) The dictionary definition of a word. B) The way we speak. C) An author's choice of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An author's choice of words. 7. Haiku was first written in A) China. B) Thailand. C) The United Kingdom. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Japan. 8. Chocolate candy is sweet and yummyIt goes down smoothly in my tummy! A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain. C) Couplet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 9. A winner of a spelling bee failing a spelling test. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 10. Version of a metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Pun. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 11. The poet's choice of words A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 12. Directly compares unlike things (one thing is another, no like or as) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Ode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. A Japanese poem, composed of three lines and seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count, and often focuses on images from nature A) Haiku. B) Narrative poem. C) Ode. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 14. The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of two or more clauses or lines A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 15. Poetry that is free from the rules and limitations of regular poetry. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 16. A pair of of lines of verse that usually rhyme and have a complete thought A) Stanza. B) Metaphor. C) Extended metaphor. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 17. How the poem is presented to readers A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Poetic Structure. D) Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic Structure. 18. The poet's attitude towards his/her subject. A) Rhythm. B) Sound. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 19. Simile or Metaphor? The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the sill of the world. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Occurs when the beginning sound of a word is repeated in the words that follow. A) End Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Form. D) Accent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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