This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 364 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 364 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of words in a line in a poem A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Paragraph. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 2. Giving non-human things human characteristics or abilities A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Synecdoche. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 3. An intentional contradiction between apparent and actual meaning A) Poetry. B) Symbolism. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 4. True or False:All rhyming words have to have the same end spelling. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.'. A) Cutting. B) Antithesis. C) Cacophony. D) Chiasmus. E) Inverted syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chiasmus. 6. The trees danced under the starry skies is an example of ..... ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. What is a group of words aligned in one row? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 8. A short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form with three lines of five syllable, seven syllables, and five syllables A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Free verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 9. Group of lines that are set off visually from other lines in the poem like a paragraph in literature A) Figurative language. B) Stanza. C) Metaphor. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 10. The felt emotion by the reader of the poem is called: A) Free Verse. B) Mood. C) Connotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 11. Giving reference to a movie, book, or common phrase that most people know A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Theme. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. End rhymes that are not exact, but approximate. A) End rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant rhyme. 13. What poetic sound device is used in this sentence? She fell flat on her face. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. Overtones, suggestions, implications, and additional meanings of the word A) Denotation. B) Feelings, emotions, thoughts. C) Connotation. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 15. What figurative language is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression? A) Idiom. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Hyperbola. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 16. Definition:a four-line verse or poem that rhymes A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Concrete Poem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 17. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis for humorous effect. A) Hyperbole. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. Repetition of consonants in a line-not at the beginning A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 19. A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Formal verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 20. The beat of a poem, created by the poet's deliberate choice of words made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. ← 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