This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 361 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 361 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story is the ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Figurative language. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 2. Which of the terms below describes the persona that is addressing the audience or another character? A) Protagonist. B) Narrator. C) Tone. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 3. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering, thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. The flow of the beat in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Free verse. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 5. Movement with regular repetition, used to bring out the musical quality of language A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 6. The use, more than once, of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, or sentence. A) Haiku. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. He's never been the same after his puppy passed away. My mama says he's as mad as a hatter. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. When a line of poetry wraps around to another line A) Couplet. B) Euphony. C) Cutting. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 9. ..... is when a word imitates a sound. A) Meter. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 10. The AUTHOR'S attitude toward the characters and events in the story A) Perspective. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 11. "I sang like a bird" is an example of what? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. What word means descriptions that appeal to the five senses. A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 13. The snow felt like daggers against my skin. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Line Break. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. A two line unit in a poem, typically rhyming A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Stanza. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 15. What's the meaning of this hyperbole? "Shawn would move mountains for Angela." A) Shawn and Angela like to climb mountains together. B) Shawn paints pictures of mountain scenes. C) Shawn would do anything for Angela. D) Angela is really pretty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shawn would do anything for Angela. 16. Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry A) Persona. B) Couplet. C) Euphony. D) To rap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 17. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 18. A ballad is similar to a ..... A) Haiku. B) Song. C) Essay. D) Memoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Song. 19. A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. What form of poetry expresses strong feelings, can rhyme, and is songlike? A) Free Verse. B) Humorous. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. ← 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