This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 386 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 386 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Analysts who want to study a poem's meter will mark vertical lines for feet and use accents and lowercase "u"s to mark stress. This process is called ..... a poem A) Rhyming. B) Scanning. C) Metering. D) Slurring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scanning. 2. What is a unit of rhythm in poetry? A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 3. A grouping of lines in poetry is called ..... A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Verse OR stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse OR stanza. 4. The sun laughed at the moon because it could not produce heat. This is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. She sells seashells by the seashoreTres tristes tigres tragan trigo en un trigal A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 6. A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type. A) Epic. B) Narrative Poem. C) Sonnet. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 7. White space A) Where the poet chooses to end one line and start writing on another. B) The area around a poem on a page. C) A type of poetry that does not have any rhyme, meter patterns, or specific format. D) A type of writing that is used to express emotions, experiences, and images in an imaginative way. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The area around a poem on a page. 8. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmth and green and life.Q. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmth until it sang of joyand love and life.How many STANZAS does the poem have? A) This poem has 1 stanza. B) This poem has 2 stanzas. C) This poem has 4 stanzas. D) This poem has 8 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This poem has 2 stanzas. 9. Why do people use figurative language? A) To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point. B) To be grammatically correct. C) To structure their writing into paragraphs. D) Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point. 10. A 3-line poem with syllables of 5, 7, 5 for each line A) Sonnet. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 11. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thingis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. What figurative language is a reference to something or someone famous? A) Personification. B) Hyperbola. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 13. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem, labeled with lower-case letters of the alphabet A) Rhyme scheme. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 14. A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. On the way up north to the cabin, the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. This is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. Which of the following includes an example of personification? A) The dog ran swiftly across the park. B) The mosquito buzzed around my ear. C) It took forever to finish my test. D) The clouds marched across the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The clouds marched across the sky. 17. "Love is a rose" is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) Hyperbole. C) A metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A metaphor. 18. What is a group of words together on the same row? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 19. My poetry class is not untalented.This is an example of A) Syencdoche. B) Enjambment. C) Anaphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litotes. 20. A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. ← 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