This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 262 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 262 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of two unlike things that does NOT include words "like" or "as" . A) Stanza. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. A blank space, or skipped space, in between stanzas of a poem. A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Line Break. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line Break. 3. Hark, hark!Bow-wow.The watch-dogs bark!Bow-wow.Hark, hark! I hearThe strain of strutting chanticleerCry, 'cock-a-diddle-dow!' A) These lines contain onomatopoeia. B) This is a haiku. C) This is a narrative poem. D) The speaker is an unreliable narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) These lines contain onomatopoeia. 4. Hyme that happens on a stressed syllable at the end of the line (more common) I try to rhymeall the time A) Euphemism. B) Euphony. C) Masculine rhyme. D) Feminine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Masculine rhyme. 5. A group of lines; similar to a PARAGRAPH in prose A) Structure. B) Syntax. C) Stanza. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 6. Recurring theme, pattern, or idea throughout a long poem or series of poems A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Muse. D) Pathos. E) Persona (voice). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 7. This compares two apparently inline things without the use of a connecting word. A) Simile. B) Comparison. C) Consonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern. A) Verse. B) Line. C) Quote. D) Piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 9. Poems that use the physical form and layout of the poem to help the reader understand the subject are (a) A) Concrete. B) Ballad. C) Lyrical. D) Narrative. E) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete. 10. What is this an example of? I love hearing the waves crash and feeling the soft sand at the beach. A) Imagery. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. (Similar to the repeated sounds in a song) A) Meter. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 12. "Buzz-says the great buzzing bee." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. Which of these words is an "adjective?" A) Green. B) Run. C) Monkey. D) Crestview. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green. 15. Excessive pride and arrogance A) Hubris. B) Homeric simile. C) Invocation. D) Muse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hubris. 16. Literature that is not poetry; ex:most essays, short stories, novels, and plays A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Limericks. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 17. Addressing someone absent or dead or nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and could reply. A) Irony. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 18. "She smells as sweet as a rose" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. A stanza or poem that contains 8 lines A) Quatrain. B) Octave. C) Couplet. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 20. Which term means:a short poem of songlike quality A) Ode. B) Lay. C) Pastoral. D) Idyll. E) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Lyric. ← 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