This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 263 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 263 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rising and falling of the voice when reading a poem A) Cadence. B) Pentameter. C) Scansion. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cadence. 2. You should ALWAYS pause at the end of every line in a poem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. A line break is the closing on one line and the start of another. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. An expression in which the meaning cannot be taken as literally true A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Ode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 5. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words A) List poem. B) Prose. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (like lines and stanzas). A) Short story. B) Poetry. C) Prose. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 7. A figure of speech in which in which two things are compared using like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. Is like a poem's paragraph; it is a group of verses bound together to form one section of a poem A) Stanza. B) Syllable. C) Simile. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 9. Use of words, places, characters, or objects to mean something beyond the literal A) Figurative language. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 10. A genre of literature that uses the way words look and sound (also known as rhythm) to transmit meaning to the reader. A) Personification. B) Poetry. C) Speaker. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 11. The "ideas, thoughts, connections, associations "implied by the words in a poem are called: A) Rhythm. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 12. Comparing two unlike things using "is" or "was" A) Simile. B) Stanza. C) Haiku. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 13. A haiku has..... lines. A) 14. B) 5. C) 7. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 14. What is the structure/shape of a poem called? A) Plot. B) Quatrain. C) Imagery. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 15. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. A short poem of three lines (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) that is usually about nature ..... A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Limerick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 17. A type of refrain device, where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of linesDid he smile his work to see?Did he who make the Lamb make thee? A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Rhyme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. A four-line poem or stanza A) Four-square. B) Iamb. C) Requiem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 19. My father is like a hurricane, destroying all in his path. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 20. Choose the clue words that indicate problem and solution. A) First, last, next, after. B) Cause, as a result of, consequently. C) Compare, similar, both, alike. D) Threat, difficulty, possibility, hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Threat, difficulty, possibility, hope. ← 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