This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 298 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 298 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that does not rhyme or contain a structured meter A) Haiku. B) Acrostic. C) Ode. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 2. Combination of senses, as in "a blue note" A) Synesthesia. B) Antithesis. C) Metonymy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synesthesia. 3. Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of human A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. When the end of two or more words end the same way A) Sonnet. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 5. "While I nodded, nearly napping" is an example of what poetic device? A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. Predictable beat in a poem. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Simile. C) Narrative. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 7. An adjective or descriptive phrase that is used to characterize a person, place, or thing A) Homeric simile. B) Flashback. C) Epithet. D) Invocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epithet. 8. Any literature which uses sounds, rhythm, and creative word choice to express thoughts and invoke feelings. A) Drama. B) Poetry. C) Fiction. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 9. Four-line stanzas with a rhyming pattern A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Limerick. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 10. It describes something nonhuman as if it had human qualities. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Repetition of sounds at the ends of words A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Traditional. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 12. A stanza is best described as A) A chunk of lines, similar to a paragraph. B) The speaker's attitude toward the subject. C) A comparison between two unlike things to create an effect. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A chunk of lines, similar to a paragraph. 13. Analysis of a poem's meter A) Scansion. B) Spondee. C) Synecdoche. D) Trope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scansion. 14. The repetition of consonant sounds like in "sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. Writer's choice of words. (Specific words convey a particular tone or meaning). A) Theme. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 16. Dual, twofold, characterized by two parts. A) Binary. B) Cutting. C) Blank verse. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Binary. 17. It seems that tom's home was prison A) Tom's home has a lot of fences. B) Tom locked his front door. C) Tom was forced to stay at home. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom was forced to stay at home. 18. When doubt was a hiss in my ear. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 19. A pattern or recurring idea/image/symbol in literary work. A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Motif. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 20. Which of the following senses are used when the author uses IMAGERY? A) Seeing, hearing, feeling, moving, tasting. B) Seeing, touching, smelling, moving, hearing. C) Seeing, feeling, hearing, touching. D) Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting. ← 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