This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 402 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 402 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poem characterized by the expression of a feeling A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Loving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 2. The lesson or message the author is trying to convey A) Mood. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 3. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear. A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 4. An extreme exaggeration to help make a point A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 6. Carpe diem means A) The art of poetry. B) Quit complaining. C) Seize the day!. D) The fish are biting today. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seize the day!. 7. A humorous 5-line poetic form with an AABBA rhyme scheme A) Ballad. B) Limerick. C) Alliteration. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 8. A line of poetry having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. A) Enjambment. B) Hyperbole. C) Haiku. D) Iambic pentameter:. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 9. Iambic pentameter is an example of ..... A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Enjambment. C) Meter. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 10. Instilling human qualities to nonhuman qualities A) Simile. B) Poet. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. Poems do not have a message or theme A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Change in the movement or tone of a poem resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader A) Refrain. B) Shift. C) Stanza. D) Couplet (Rhyming Couplet). E) Tercet (Triplet). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shift. 13. What is this an example of? I made my way to the lake. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 14. Choose the definition for:mood A) The use, more than once, of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence. B) A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. C) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. D) The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. 15. The author's attitude toward the subject A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Connotations. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 16. The pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence. A) Line. B) Rhythm. C) Consonance. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 17. "I lie down by the side of my bride" contains A) Foreshadowing. B) A simile. C) A metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 18. I'm so tired, I could sleep for 100 years! A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 19. When it comes, the landscape listens, Shadows hold their breath. (Emily Dickinson, "A Certain Slant of Light" ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. What type of poetry is this the definition for?An unrhymed Japanese poem, delicate in feel and usually about nature; composed of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables (17 syllables total) A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. ← 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