This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 398 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 398 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem A) Author. B) Syllable. C) Poet. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 2. A sentence or writing becomes ambiguous when: A) Something is confusing. B) There is more than one interpretation. C) There is a rhyming pattern. D) The author wants to create a strong thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is more than one interpretation. 3. What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. When you gonna earn that pay When you gonna play that song and make my day The pattern of the END rhyme is also called the ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 5. Stanza with 3 lines A) Sestet. B) Quatrain. C) Triplet. D) Octet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Triplet. 6. Japanese verse, three lines and 17 syllables A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Alliteration. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 7. The use of the word 'worshipped implies that the narrator thinks she see's him as: A) A god. B) A father. C) A husband. D) An animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A god. 8. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants. A) Assonance. B) Rhyme. C) Cinquain. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 9. Spondaic meter A) An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). B) Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. C) The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. D) Two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally. 10. An ode is meant to A) Be 16 lines with a certain meter. B) Be a poem praising someone or something. C) Be three lines with 5/7/5 syllables. D) Be making a statement against something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Be a poem praising someone or something. 11. The word makes the sound ..... boom, bang, hiss, etc ..... A) Verse. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 12. The process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern. Prosody, the pronunciation of a song or poem, is necessary for scansion A) Eye rhyme:. B) Slant rhyme:. C) Rhyme scheme:. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scansion. 13. A literary device that appeals to one or more of the reader's five senses is known as A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 14. The people in the poem A) Metaphors. B) Characters. C) Setting. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters. 15. The voice through whom the poem is told. A) Narrator. B) Third person limited. C) Speaker. D) Talker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 16. "His body was tubular, and tapered, and smoke-blue" is an example of A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. Giving animals or objects human qualities A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. This is the term for having no punctuation at the end of a line. A) End stop. B) Enjambment. C) Cesura. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 19. The definition of the term "mood" is ..... A) Words that imitate natural sounds. B) The atmosphere or feeling the poem creates for the reader. C) Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses. D) Words that begin with the same sound near each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The atmosphere or feeling the poem creates for the reader. 20. Attitude of the speaker of a poem or poet toward the subject A) Tone. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. ← 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