This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 355 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 355 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is another name for a short poem with a songlike quality A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Flashback. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a narrative poem? A) Tells a story. B) Shares thoughts/feelings and must be musical. C) There is a setting. D) There are characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shares thoughts/feelings and must be musical. 3. A writer or speaker's attitude toward his or her subject matter. How they feel about what they are saying A) Personification. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 4. Which vocabulary word is being defined? A humorous, rhyming, 5 line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme? A) Concrete Poem. B) Limerick Poem. C) Haiku Poem. D) Narrative Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick Poem. 5. A lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, that praises something or someone A) Prose. B) Rhyme. C) Ode. D) Homonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode. 6. A written expression showing feelings and emotions using figurative language, and there are different types. A) Form. B) Theme. C) Line. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 7. Occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else. A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 8. A humorous poem consisting of 5 lines. A) Balled. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 9. What is the figurative device that is an extreme exaggeration? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 10. What is a formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (ie buzz, sizzle)? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 11. In addition to rhyme, which poetic device do these lines show? For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings. A) Irony. B) Satire. C) Inversion. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inversion. 12. Two or more lines with rhyming words is called ..... A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 13. Which of these shows onomatopoeia? A) Toni's Terrific Tacos. B) We wish you a merry ChristmasWe Wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a meer Christmas and a happy new year!. C) The bright sun danced on the snow, making the ground sparkle like diamonds. D) The honking and beeping and screeching of the traffic gave me a headache. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The honking and beeping and screeching of the traffic gave me a headache. 14. The pattern of rhyme within a stanza or poem ..... steeple a ..... town b ..... people a ..... down b A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 15. Which is the correct defintion of Sonnet? A) A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. B) A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. C) An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry. D) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. 16. What is imagery in poetry? A) Creates word pictures through the senses. B) Words that imitate sounds. C) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) A pattern of beats and stresses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creates word pictures through the senses. 17. Extreme exaggeration; can't possibly be true A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Cesura. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. Which of the following contains an alliteration? A) The snaked slithered slyly through the tall grasses. B) Life is a journey. C) He stiffened in anger. D) The sub rose to greet the day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The snaked slithered slyly through the tall grasses. 19. The "tone of voice" a work seems to project; poet's attitude towards subject and audience A) Diction. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) Poetic device. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. Hyperbole is an exaggeration used for emphasis or humor. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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