This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 397 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 397 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed, as in seventeen and to the moon. A) Antithesis. B) Alliteration. C) Alexandrine. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anapest. 2. A comparison using the word "is" A) Synonym. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 3. Giving human characteristics to describe a non living thing or animal A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. In poetry, there are ..... A) Lines. B) Sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lines. 5. The literary term for exaggeration is called: A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 6. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 7. A word, line, or phrase in a poem that is repeated. A) Refrain. B) Couplet. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrain. 8. What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue? A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Epic. D) Ghazal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic. 9. Refers to a word choice. A) Denotation. B) Meter. C) Speaker. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 10. A rhyme within the same line of poetry A) Rhythm. B) Internal rhyme. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 11. "Two people for the price of one" Mr. Yao joked.Add the comma. A) "Two people for the price of one", Mr. Yao joked. B) "Two people for the price of one, " Mr. Yao joked. C) No paragraph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Two people for the price of one, " Mr. Yao joked. 12. What is this an example of: "I think that I shall never see/ a poem as lovely as a tree" A) Couplet. B) Refrain. C) Octave. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 13. Lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure. A) Ballad. B) Tribute. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 14. A four-lined stanza A) Rhyme scheme. B) Quatrain. C) Excerpt. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 15. A comparison that gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. A comparison between two different things using like or as is called: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. The attitude of the speaker or poet toward the subject of the poem or toward the reader A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Personification. D) Anthology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 18. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 19. Is a poem where the first letter of each line is the subsequent letter of the alphabet. A) Blackout. B) Free Verse. C) Sonnet. D) ABC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABC. 20. The rhythm created by the stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables. A) Repetition. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. ← 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