This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 326 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 326 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of lines forming a unit/ The group of lines is separated by a space. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Ode. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 2. The main idea or meaning of a literary work A) Theme. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 3. What poetic device is used in the following sentence? The birds in the aviary squawked and chirped loudly. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Slant rhyme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. What is it called when a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature? A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 5. Achange in poetry in tone, structure, or speaker. A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Shift. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift. 6. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? When I walked into the room, I was immediately surrounded with the aroma of homemade cookies. A) Smell. B) Taste. C) Sight. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smell. 7. Lyrical poetry A) Tells a story. B) Is part of a song. C) Doesn't make sense. D) Is generic in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is generic in nature. 8. Five line poem or stanza with rhyme scheme AABBA A) Monorhyme. B) Enclosed rhyme. C) Alternate rhyme. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 9. How do you know if a poem is a narrative? A) It has rhythm and rhyme. B) It tells a story. C) It has figurative language. D) It has sensory language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It tells a story. 10. What is the bolded section of this poem an example of? from Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow. A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 11. What is the term for the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem? A) Rhythm pattern. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Meter structure. D) Verse scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 12. A song or a song-like poem that tells a story. A) Epic. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 13. The voice of the poem, similar to a narrative A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Author. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 14. Words or feelings evoked by another word A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Diction. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 15. What type of figurative language is the following sentence:How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew? A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. A pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 17. 3 lined poem, usually about nature, 17 syllables A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 18. The way a reader is supposed to feel in response to the work. A) Style. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 19. A type of alliteration that involves a repetition of an 's' sound which creates a hissing quality is called A) Sibilance. B) Assonance. C) Synonym. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sibilance. 20. Insufficient or not enough A) Inability. B) Infrequently. C) Inadequate. D) Autonomous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inadequate. ← 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