This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 276 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 276 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Six-line unit in a poem A) Sestet. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sestet. 2. Mark was a beast on the football field destroying anyone who came in his path. Which type of figurative language is used in the line above? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 3. The design of a poem; the means by which a literary work expresses its content A) Form. B) Verse. C) Rhyme. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 4. "It is is easy as cake" is a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) We stand. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 5. How many lines does a couplet have? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 6. A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. A) Sonnet. B) Narrative. C) Blank Verse. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 7. This line of poetry has an example of?Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so; A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. Repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem A) Consonance. B) Meter. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 9. A short poem expressing the internal and emotional thoughts of a single speaker. They are usually an expression of the poet's feelings about a person, an object, event or idea. They originated as songs and retain their melodic patterns through various forms or rhythm and rhyme. A) Lyric. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 10. Set of words or phrases that are repeated regularly in a poem or song A) Refrain. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 11. The division of a poem (The "paragraphs" of poetry). A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. How is tone created A) Creating imagery. B) What characters do. C) Diction. D) Using contradictions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 13. The way a poem flows from one idea to the next A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 14. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song A) Near or slant rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 15. The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 16. This type of writing is typically reserved for expressing something special in an artistic way. Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be sentences. Lines are arranged in stanzas. A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Graphs. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 17. Which of these is alliteration? A) All the animals left. B) The chasing cheetah was as fast as a cheetah. C) The dog left his house. D) The friendly dog found a cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The chasing cheetah was as fast as a cheetah. 18. Which type of figurative langauge compares two things without using like or as? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. A stronger comparison saying that something IS something rather than just LIKE it A) Simile. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. A) Tone. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. ← 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