This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 295 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 295 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem's theme is ..... A) Its topic. B) Its message or lesson. C) Its main idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its message or lesson. 2. Tahquamenon FallsWater rushing, gushing, pushingpast the limits of the edge.Water barrels off the ledge, whipping up the bottom sludge, makes the water look like fudge, growling with a freight train's roar, wildly rushes out some more. This is an example of A) The pun. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. What do we call the pattern of stresses or beats in written language? A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhythm/Meter. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm/Meter. 4. What is the definition of audience? A) The basic rhythmic structure in verse. B) The intended target group for a message. C) The atmosphere or feeling created by the writer. D) The intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The intended target group for a message. 5. Sensory language that creates word pictures in readers' minds The word is ..... A) Imagery. B) Omniscient third-person. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. A group of lines in a poem or song is called A) To room. B) A meter. C) A paragraph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To room. 7. Comparison between two unlike things using "like", "as", "than", or "resembles" A) Theme. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 8. The bright red and yellow explosions of fireworks bloomed in the night as the BOOM deafened the crowd. The smell of gunpowder drifted through the air and mixed with the smells of BBQ and fresh cut grass. A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. The repetition of a vowel sounds within a word such as Minnesota and finish A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 10. Which is the correct defintion of blank verse? A) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. B) Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. C) Two successive rhyming lines. D) A comparison between two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. 11. A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often (but not always) marked by punctuation. A) Cutting. B) Cacophony. C) Couplet. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting. 12. The way the poet feels about the subject of his or her work is called- A) Stanza. B) Speaker. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 13. Words that sound alike A) Allusion. B) Rhyme. C) Sonnet. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 14. A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. E) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme. 15. Line or lines in a poem that are repeated at the end of a stanza A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 16. Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter A) Myth. B) Free verse. C) Objective. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 17. The person or narrator telling the story A) Symbol. B) Speaker. C) Alliteration. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 18. "There are a ton of similes in the poem." This is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. Describing an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms A) Hyperbole. B) Theme. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. What is a common theme in haiku? A) Nature. B) War. C) Heartbreak. D) Friendship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. ← 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