This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 367 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 367 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most important point in a line of poetry; the breath or pause at the end of each row of words; used along with or instead of punctuation marks, a line break is a deliberate choice by the poet and its use can affect a poem's sound, meaning, and appearance A) Stanza. B) Line break. C) Terminal rhyme. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line break. 2. My body breaks and it breaks and I do not.My body splits, and I make home around its borders. A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 3. To give human traits and characteristics to an animal, object, or idea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A word that has the same spelling both forward and backward such as civic is known as A) Reversal. B) Spoonerism. C) Palindrome. D) Feminine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palindrome. 5. The way a poem is arranged on the page is called its A) Arrangement. B) Organization. C) Style. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 6. A figure of speech that is composed of exaggeration A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. Line of poetry with five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables, widely used by Shakespeare A) Iambic pentameter. B) Quatrain. C) Free verse. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 8. The voice behind the poem A) Author. B) Illustrator. C) Narrator. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 9. Which type of figurative language compares using "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. A poem written to celebrate a wedding is a/an A) Epithalamus. B) Encomium. C) Threnody. D) Karanach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epithalamus. 11. Groups of words in a poem A) Poem. B) Simile. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 12. Three-line verse form, seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 13. Story told from a character not in the story A) Narrator. B) First person pov. C) Third person pov. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person pov. 14. Giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. A writer's attitude toward his/her subject A) Rhythm. B) Ode. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 16. A word's literal, dictionary definition. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 17. What is this an example of? "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you!" A) Imagery. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 18. A metaphor that extends over several lines or throughout an entire poem A) Extended Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Lining Out. D) Assonant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended Metaphor. 19. The sound of a poem created by accented and unaccented syllables. A) Alliteration. B) Limerick. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 20. A situation that makes no logical sense is better known as a/an A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. ← 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