This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 307 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 307 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sound in poetry A) Refrain. B) Rhythm. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 2. Which of the following is NOT an oxymoron? A) Bittersweet. B) Civil war. C) Quick thinking. D) Pretty ugly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quick thinking. 3. Song-like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance A) Lyric. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 4. ..... is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A) RHYME. B) METAPHOR. C) SYLLABLE. D) METER. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) METER. 5. What structure is used in writing poetry? A) Sentences & Paragraphs. B) Sentences & Stanzas. C) Lines and Paragraphs. D) Lines and Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines and Stanzas. 6. The "beat" of the poem, also known as meter. A) Rhyme pattern. B) Rhythm. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 7. The meaning of a word that does not reflect the dictionary definition. An example:The definition of home is love, comfort, and family together. A) Connotation. B) Speaker. C) Imagery. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 8. Identical sounds in rhyming A) Near Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exact Rhyme. 9. Figurative Language:Choose the example of personification. A) The sky is low, the clouds are mean. B) Down in their cabins, the sailors are sheep. C) The stormy seas as dark as coal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sky is low, the clouds are mean. 10. Language that appeals to the senses-sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. This refers to the writer's use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work. A) Description. B) Imagery. C) Senses. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 12. Which of the following terms is defined as:poetry that has NO set rhyme, rhythm, or meter and may use irregular line length, punctuation, and capitalization. A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Free verse. D) Sonnet. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 13. What is the structure of the poem A) Comedy. B) Act. C) Script. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 14. Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 15. Which of the following words has neutral connotation? A) Superfluous. B) Blatant. C) Noxious. D) Tedious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blatant. 16. What is a poetic form? A) The intended target group for a message. B) The basic rhythmic structure in verse. C) The distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics. D) The literary works focused on expression of feelings and ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics. 17. What sound device is used in the following sentence:The green grass waves like a shimmering sea.As I lie in the sahde of a towering tree. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End Rhyme. 18. Words that have the same ending sound A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 19. ..... is a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 20. A statement that represents the main idea present in a literary work. A) Motif. B) Theme. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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