This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 293 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 293 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which term means the pattern of end rhyme in a poem? A) Slant rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 2. (This helps to convey the overall mood and tone of a poem) A) Tone. B) Voice. C) Inflection. D) Intonation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intonation. 3. A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to create a strong meaning A) Rhyme. B) Poetry. C) Stanza. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 4. A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison A) Simile. B) Comparison. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. There was a little guinea pig, Who being little, was not big; He always walked upon his feet, And never fasted when he eat. A) Poem. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 6. What is the following statement an example of? I'm a riddle in nine syllables A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. A poem with 14 lines and fixed verse is called a? A) Sonnet. B) Sombrero. C) Bonnet. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 8. What does the sentence below actually mean?Lightning danced across the sky. A) The lightning was at a dance party. B) There was no lightning in the sky. C) There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm. D) The lightning was bad at dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm. 9. A ballad is similar to a narrative poem in that it: A) Is set to music. B) Tells a story. C) Has simple repeating lines. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tells a story. 10. When there is no rhyming pattern at all that is called? A) Boring. B) Free verse. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. E) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 11. What is a stanza in a poem? A) A single row in a poem. B) A group of lines in a poem. C) An exaggeration. D) How many lines a poem has. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of lines in a poem. 12. I row a golden boat. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 13. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many stanza's are in this poem? A) 5. B) 1. C) 0. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 14. Which is an example of a synecdoche? A) Using the 5 senses to convey an image to the reader. B) Repeating the same consonant sound. C) Using the word sails to refer to the actual boat. D) Using the phrase old man to refer to your father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using the word sails to refer to the actual boat. 15. Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to: A) Entertain, describe, inform, persuade. B) Dance across the page. C) Entertain, describe, bore, persuade. D) Describe, persuade, entertain, exasperate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entertain, describe, inform, persuade. 16. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ..... " is an example of what? A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. Compares two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing A) Metaphor. B) Formal verse. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. A three-line line Japanese verse that has a 5-7-5 syllable line construction is a: A) Couplett. B) Ballad. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 19. A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Anapest. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 20. Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals A) Personification. B) Speaker. C) Narrative. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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