This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 314 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 314 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods and/or heros. A) Haiku. B) Epic poem. C) Free verse. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic poem. 2. ..... is an open form, but does not have regular patterns of rhyme. A) Conventional form. B) Irregular form. C) Free verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 3. If a piece of literature is not poetry, it is called: A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Essay. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 4. Language that describes a vivid sensory experience A) Enjambment. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 5. "The Sun smiled at us."Is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. When a line of poetry has ten syllables per line following an unstressed/stressed pattern A) Couplet. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 7. A cinquain consists of ..... A) 5 lines. B) 6 lines. C) 7 lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5 lines. 8. Something that stands for itself, but also something larger than itself. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 9. Which is the correct defintion of Simile? A) A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison. B) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. C) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. D) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison. 10. The musical quality created by meter A) Rhyme. B) Sonnet. C) Blank verse. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 11. The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative is A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 12. What two words does a simile use to compare two unlike things? A) Like and the. B) Like and as. C) As and the. D) As and how. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like and as. 13. Scansion A) Scanning a poem to determine rhythm. B) Quickly reading a poem. C) Words that almost rhyme, but do not really. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scanning a poem to determine rhythm. 14. From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled ..... A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. A narrative poem..... A) Tells a story. B) Captures a moment or feeling (and can be a song). C) Always tells us about a funny moment. D) NEVER has rhyming words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tells a story. 16. Which is an example of rhyme? A) Bat, Cat, Bike. B) Bat, Cat, Mat. C) Blue, Crow, Moon. D) Blue, Water, Soap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bat, Cat, Mat. 17. A poem of only two lines A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Tercet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 18. Stanza with 2 lines A) Couplet. B) Triplet. C) Sestet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 19. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmth until it sang of joyand love and life. How many lines in the poem above? A) This poem has 1 line. B) This poem has 4 lines. C) This poem has 2 lines. D) This poem has 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) This poem has 8 lines. 20. The repetition of similar sounds and the pattern produced in a poem, usually marked by letters:abba. A) Form. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. ← 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