This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 358 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 358 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 2. The definition of mood is A) The overall feelings or emotions in the writer. B) Revising your writing so that it is free of errors. C) Overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader. D) Working with a partner to check your writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader. 3. The pattern of rhymed lines in a poem. A) Simile. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 4. Any object, person, or place that has meaning in itself but also stands for something else, usually on an abstract level. A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Symbolism. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 5. Figurative language is defined as ..... A) Language that is not meant to be taken literally. B) Language that is meant to create an emotional effect in readers and to make them ask questions. C) Options 1 and 2 are both correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Options 1 and 2 are both correct. 6. When there is similarity in the final sounds of two or more lines, it is called: A) Rhyme. B) Poetry. C) Symbolism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 7. Two or more rhyming words occurring within the same line or 2 or more rhyming words appearing in the middle of 2 separate lines A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 8. True or False-Rhythm in poetry (or any writing/songs with words) is created by words having the same middle and ending sounds. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. What gives poetry a musical feel and can be fast or slow depending on the mood and subject of the poem? A) Rhythm. B) Rap. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 10. What is the definition of a paradox? A) A paradox is a statement or situation that contradicts itself or seems to defy logic. B) A paradox is a statement or situation that is unrelated to logic or contradiction. C) A paradox is a statement or situation that is easy to understand and straightforward. D) A paradox is a statement or situation that makes perfect sense and is completely logical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A paradox is a statement or situation that contradicts itself or seems to defy logic. 11. Elegies are poems that are based on: A) Their structure of rhyme such as abab. B) Their content-lamenting someone's death. C) Speeches given at a funeral. D) Experiences from a vacation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their content-lamenting someone's death. 12. What is the appearance of the words on the page in poetry called? A) Mood. B) Stanza. C) Form. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 13. What is the correct term for the following definition? a repetition of similarly sounding words occurring at the end of the lines in poems or songs A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Rhyme. D) Conceit = Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 14. Poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page. A) Concrete. B) Limerick. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete. 15. The repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse A) Enjambment. B) Prose. C) Meter. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 17. A verse form of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme scheme A) Ode. B) Sonnet. C) Quatrain. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 18. Descriptive words that create a picture in the reader's mind (appeals to the senses) A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 19. Refers to all associated or implied meanings of a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Assonance. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 20. A poem that does not follow a consistent rhythm or rhyme; these focus on imagery, word choice, and figurative language and are free from traditional structure A) Villanelles. B) Consonance. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. 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