This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 291 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 291 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following uses "omniscient narrator" point of view? A) Today is not my day. B) Your future is as blinding as the sun. C) Luke couldn't tell what Kayla was thinking. D) Lisa and Manuel did not yet know what loomed ahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lisa and Manuel did not yet know what loomed ahead. 2. A poem that has few or no rhyming words and no particular pattern is known as a ..... A) Lyric poem. B) Haiku. C) Cinquain. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem. 3. An extreme exaggeration is ..... A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. Using overstatement to show that something is important A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. Assonance is the repeating of vowel sounds in nearby words. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. This is an example of:There is a confirmed rumor spreading the hallways. A) Paradox. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 7. How do you differentiate between lyric and narrative poems? A) You don't, it is too hard. B) Lyric poems tend to convey emotions in first person while narrative poems propel the plot. C) Lyric poems are sung and narrative poems are read at a certain tempo. D) Only songs are lyric poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poems tend to convey emotions in first person while narrative poems propel the plot. 8. Is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. A free verse poem..... A) Does not follow rules. B) Tells a story. C) Captures a moment or feeling (like a song). D) Happens when words have the same ending sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does not follow rules. 10. The unit of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row is called- A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Lyric poem. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 11. A two-lined stanza A) Quatrain. B) Three meters. C) Dimeter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 12. What is it called when a metrical foot has an unstressed, stressed pattern? A) Anapestic. B) Spondaic. C) Trochaic. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic. 13. Dimeter A) A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. B) A harsh mixture of conflicting noises. C) A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. D) Two feet per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two feet per line. 14. What type of rhyme do we see in Black Thought's "Respond/React" ?Slow up before you get dropped and closed like a caption/ Fractional kids don't know the time for action/ Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon/ Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin/that's what happen, now what's your reaction?/ A) Exact Rhyme. B) Multisyllabic Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multisyllabic Rhyme. 15. The moral life lesson from a piece of literature A) Theme. B) Main idea. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 16. Rhymes at the end of lines. A) Verse. B) End rhyme. C) Line rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 17. Group of lines that form verses A) Personification. B) Tone. C) Assonance. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 18. The voice that narrates the events of the poem is called ..... A) Protagonist. B) Speaker. C) Poet. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 19. A truth, lesson or message about life in a poem or other literary text. A) Poet. B) Poem. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 20. A stanza containing 4 lines A) Four. B) Quatrain. C) Exclamation. D) Quarter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. ← 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