This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 385 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 385 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A natural break or pause in a line of poetry, usually in the middle A) Cesura. B) Conceit. C) Trope. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 2. Also called a "unit" of poetry, which of the following describes a collection of poetic lines? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 3. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsex. Moby moved mountains of maroon marmots.ex. She sells seashells by the seashore. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Which of the following answer choices is the most essential to a sonnet? A) Rhyming lines. B) Blank verse. C) 8 lines. D) 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 lines. 5. A word that sounds like what it means. Ex. buzz, click, bang, sizzle A) Diction. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Ballad. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. ..... is poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. A) STRUCTURED VERSE. B) FREE VERSE. C) LOOSE VERSE. D) LYRIC VERSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FREE VERSE. 7. Poetry that is defined by its lack of structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed lie length, or specific stanza pattern. A) Concrete. B) Limerick. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 8. A row of words (just one line) A) Repetition. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 9. "HIgh as a kIte in the skY"is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 10. An outrageous exaggeration used for effect. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. Use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation is ..... A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 12. Five heavy beats per line A) Iambic. B) Pentameter. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pentameter. 13. When two lines almost rhyme A) Onomatopoeia. B) Repetition. C) Couplet. D) Approximate rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Approximate rhyme. 14. Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or a line. A) Close rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Foot. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Close rhyme. 15. The writer's attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. A) Mood. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 16. Rhyming Couplets A) Pairs of rhyming lines, usually the same meter and lenth. B) A 3-lined Japanese verse form. C) Poetry that is defined by its lack of strict structure. D) A 3-lined Japanese verse form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pairs of rhyming lines, usually the same meter and lenth. 17. What is the place where a poet decides to end a line of poetry? A) Line breaks. B) Limerick. C) Lyrical poem. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line breaks. 18. A repeated phrase or line in a poem A) Refrain. B) Alliteration. C) Literal meaning. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 19. The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of words (sing, fang) A) Consonance. B) Simile. C) Meter. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 20. Poem that tells a story A) Ballad. B) Speaker. C) Symbolism. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative poem. ← 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