This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 322 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 322 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that takes a certain shape to convey its meaning. The placement and design of the words is just as important as the words. A) Fixed verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Figurative. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concrete poetry. 2. Lines A) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. B) The amount of words in a poem. C) A play on words using homophones, homonyms, and homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. 3. An 8 line stanza A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 4. A cow says "Moo" "tic-tac" , the hands of the clock. A) Metaphor. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 5. Imagery and word pictures are similar. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. A statement that appears to contradict itself A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 7. A comparison between two unlike things-does not use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. The rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds A) Perfect. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Slant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant. 9. What is the definition of "apostrophe" in poetry? A) An address to an absent or imaginary person. B) The repetition of similar vowels in successive words. C) Passing reference or indirect mention to something outside of the text. D) A recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An address to an absent or imaginary person. 10. This is a poem which has storytelling as its main purpose A) Ode. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative. 11. Which term describes the "paragraphs" in a poem? A) Stanzas. B) Rhymes. C) Meters. D) Forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 12. True or false:A rhyme scheme has the following TWO characteristics:1) a pattern of rhyming words or sounds (usually end rhyme, but not always) 2)uses the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. The rhyming of the last words in the lines of poetry. (the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.) A) Stanza. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Poetic Meter. D) Line Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 14. The girl had fun playing in the sun A) Simile. B) Internal rhyme. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 15. MAGGY'S SAGGY PANTS WERE BAGGY AND RAGGY. A) ALLITERATION. B) ASSONANCE. C) Car. D) Article. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ALLITERATION. 16. What poetic device is used in the following example?"The leaves danced across the lawn" A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 17. A figure of speech where one word is substituted for another which it is closely associated. Example:In "the pen is mightier than the sword", pen means "the written word" and sword means "military might" A) Metonymy. B) Scansion. C) Synecdoche. D) Trope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 18. The use of words that imitate sounds or noises A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 19. The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration all working together. A) Mood. B) Narrative Poems. C) End Rhyme. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 20. The denotation is the ..... meaning of a word. A) Emotional. B) Dictionary. C) Incorrect. D) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dictionary. ← 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