This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 316 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 316 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above? A) This poem has 1 stanza. B) This poem has 2 stanzas. C) This poem has 4 stanzas. D) This poem has 8 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This poem has 2 stanzas. 2. A pleasant combination or agreeable sounds. A) Cacophony. B) Euphony. C) Alliteration. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphony. 3. An exaggerated statement or claim. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. When something is said in a book that is in the further it is ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Predicting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 5. A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/ A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Blank verse. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 6. A process in which you look for things that are the same. (2 or more things) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Compare. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compare. 7. What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword" A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 8. (BAM! Splat. SHHHHHH!) A) Hyperbole. B) Exaggeration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 9. Poems free of rules and patterns A) Stanza. B) Haiku. C) Free verse. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 10. What are sound devices? A) Techniques used by poets. B) Create musical and emotional effects. C) Alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. Which is the correct defintion of Couplet? A) A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. B) A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. C) Two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. D) Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. 12. Literal definition A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Analyze. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 13. The following is an example of which sound device?ABAB CDCD EFEF GG A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 14. What term describes when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else? A) Sensory Language. B) Figurative Language. C) Alliteration. D) Poetic Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 15. Writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Repetition. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 16. What word refers to words whose sounds suggest their meaning? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas. A) Poetry. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. Poem in praise of a person, object, or event. Modern versions of this poem have multiple stanzas with 10 lines each, typically consisting of three to five stanzas. They use the rhyme scheme ABAB-CDECDE in each stanza. A) Expression. B) Villanelle. C) Ode. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 19. A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject ..... A) Shift. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shift. 20. "We may not save the plain cake for later." This is an example of: A) Rhyme scheme. B) Scansion. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. ← 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