This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 296 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 296 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The poet organizes the poem by- A) Explaining the reasons for each of the speaker's actions. B) Listing the growing phases of the speaker's tomato plants. C) Presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience. D) Noting the frequent changes in the speaker's emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience. 2. The atmosphere the author creates using literary devices A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Contations. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 3. What is a triplet or tercet? A) Three lines of poetry that do not rhyme. B) Three lines of poetry that rhyme. C) A three word poem. D) A trio of poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three lines of poetry that rhyme. 4. Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending soundis called A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 5. The treadmill smiled when Sally finally used it This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 6. The author's word choice A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 7. She had butterflies in her stomach is an example of: A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) The idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The idiom. 8. Is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. We can describe rhyme scheme using letters to indicate different rhymes. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 9. A knot in the wood; there is beauty in just that.A simple marking. A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 10. Soft soft strong A) Iamb. B) Trochee. C) Dactyl. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anapest. 11. I was as sick as a dog is an example of a/an ..... ? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 12. The use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once is A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 13. A group of lines in a poem that is repeated is called A) Refrain. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 14. A brief reference to a biblical, historical literary, or mythological person, place, thing, or idea A) Denotation. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 15. Free verse is poetry that follows a set structure and uses specific types of rhymes within the poem. It usually has a regular meter and rhyme scheme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. Lines of poetry that continue forward in sense and punctuation into the next line. A) Parallel Line. B) Measured Line. C) End-stopped Line. D) Run-on Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Run-on Line. 17. Pattern of beats in poetry A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Octave. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 18. Poem where first letter of a word spells out a significant word A) Ballad. B) Acrostic. C) 1st Person. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 19. What is it called when a poem has repeated words or phrases; used to make something clear or to draw attention to the words or phrases? A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 20. The central idea or message of a piece of literature A) Tone. B) Topic. C) Fiction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. ← 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