This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 359 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 359 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Label the rhyme scheme in this limerick:Aclumsy young fellow named Tim Was never informed how to swim. He fell off a dock And sank like a rock. And that was the end of him. A) No rhyme scheme; it's a free verse poem. B) Abccb. C) The father. D) Abccd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The father. 2. An example of a lyric poem that mourns the dead is a(n) A) Ode. B) Narrative. C) It's fine. D) Dramatic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's fine. 3. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and line length to create the "sound" of the poem A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 4. Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is Frost referring to in the phrase "Nature's first green" ? A) Money. B) Rainy days. C) Grass. D) Young plants and flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young plants and flowers. 5. Giving non-human things human qualities A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Similarly. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. ENG:a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. SPN:a way of expressing the comparison using the word "like" EX:Clear as day A) Similar (Similar). B) Metaphor (Metafora). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similar (Similar). 7. Words that imitate sounds:buzz, pow, bang A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 8. What type of figurative language is shown?They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt! A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. Two consecutive (in a row) lines of rhyming poetry A) Couplet. B) Enjambment. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 10. A poem in verse that tells a story A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Ballad. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 11. The ball ..... hit my face. A) Almost. B) Almost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Almost. 12. A comparison in which something that is not human is described with human characteristics A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. The sun is shining bright and warm. This is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 14. True or False:Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Each line in poetry represents a complete thought. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. Pairs of rhyming lines A) Rhyming couplets. B) Ballad. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming couplets. 17. Having the same sound at the end of 2 or more words. A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Poet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 18. This is using descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind. A) Allusion. B) Mood. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 19. A 14 line poem is called a? A) Limerick. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Hyperbole. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 20. A phrase that relies on extreme exaggeration to make a point A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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