This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 388 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 388 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way in which a poem is written. These can vary in length. A) Foot. B) Line. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 2. A type of poem that is set to music or tells a story of tragedy of adventure A) Sonnet. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 3. Metaphor:elements are incongruent or contradictory, usually fantastical/absurd ex) dog pulled in its horns A) Mixed Metaphor. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed Metaphor. 4. The letters you often see at the end of poems to identify patterns refers to the ..... A) Alphabet. B) Answer key. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Melody pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 5. Cinquain, free verse, haiku, ballad, limerick, sonnet, ode etc. A) Irony. B) Word order. C) Alliteration. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 6. What type of figurative language is shown?The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. Skies are cryingI am watchingCatching tear drops in my handsis an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. Refers to the pattern of words and silence within a poem; it's "beat" A) Free verse. B) Rhythm. C) Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 9. A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 10. ..... is defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. A) Blank verse. B) Heroic couplet. C) Third rime. D) Ballad meter. E) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 11. The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of each line, labeled with an uppercase letter. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 12. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'Buzz, hiss, pop'? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Groups of lines A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 14. A long poem with a serious theme usually written to honor people or events A) Ode. B) Limerick. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 15. How many steps in Mr. Voyak's study plan? A) 6. B) 8. C) 10. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 16. What term means:a narrative poem of popular origin A) Dirge. B) Epic. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. E) Eclogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 17. The speaker or narrator of a poem who is doing the talking-often not the poet A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Muse. D) Pathos. E) Persona (voice). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Persona (voice). 18. How are stanzas separated? A) With a space AND/OR by rhyming pattern. B) By meter. C) Every 4 lines. D) Every 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With a space AND/OR by rhyming pattern. 19. An important message or lesson that an author wants to share either implicitly or explicitly about people or life A) Structural elements. B) Theme. C) Text structure. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 20. Which device is used in each example below?Good as goldBusy beeLiving the life A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. ← 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