This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 286 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 286 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Draws the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. 'The story jumped off the page." "The light danced on the surface of the water." A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Refrain. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. A figure of speech where one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another, without using "like" or "as" . A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. Define Allusion A) The attitude or feeling of the poem expressed by the poet. B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. C) A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse. D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. 5. What is the definition of repetition in poetry? A) The feeling words give you. B) Descriptive words that help the reader picture what is happening. C) Repeating the same words or phrases. D) Rhythmical patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repeating the same words or phrases. 6. A stanza or poem that has 4 lines involves different rhyme schemes. A) ABC. B) Quatrain. C) Concrete. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 7. Bzzz, Pop, Crash, Bang, Pow, are examples of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Lyric. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. 2 or more lines of poetry that form one of the divisions of a poem, usually the same length & following the same pattern of matter & rhyme A) Refrain. B) Shift. C) Stanza. D) Couplet (Rhyming Couplet). E) Tercet (Triplet). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 9. Groups of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and rhythm and are separated into sections. A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 10. Something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else A) Nomenclature. B) Metaphor. C) Symbol/Symbolism. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol/Symbolism. 11. ..... is bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings. A) Synecdoche. B) Understatement. C) Sarcasm. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 12. The wind whistled. A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. Repetition of similar ending sounds, usually rhyme occurs in specific patterns at the ends of lines, however, this sound device can also occur within a line of poetry. A) Rhyme. B) Literal Language. C) Figurative Language. D) Imagery. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. Poetry is arranged in lines called A) Meters. B) Feet. C) Iambs. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanzas. 15. Ring! Ring! is an example of ..... A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 16. What term means words that are what they sound like? Ex. Zap! Buzz! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. A song or songlike poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, simple rhyme pattern and a refrain A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Elegy. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 18. The message or main idea relevant to the real world that the author wants the reader to take away. A) Main idea. B) Theme. C) Story. D) Gist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 19. The 1988 Tip-off queen will be crowning this year's young lady Friday at the ceremony. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. Using a word, phrase, or clause more than once is called A) End Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. ← 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