This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 406 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 406 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sentimentality A) A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. B) Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. D) Excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. 2. Select the correct definition for simile. A) Describing two unlike things, saying one thing in another. B) Comparing and contrasting two things. C) Describing two unlike things, using like or as. D) Telling which of two things is your favorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describing two unlike things, using like or as. 3. Giving humanlike qualities to a nonhuman object is ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A person who writes the poem A) Playwright. B) Author. C) Poet. D) Poetic person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 5. Something repeated regularly in a poem, such as the chorus of a song. A) Point of View. B) Speaker. C) Refrain. D) Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 6. The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences: A) Symbolism. B) Tone. C) Syntax. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 7. A group of words putting together in a poem forming a sentences is called a- A) Stanza. B) Poem. C) Graphical elements. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 8. The lesson or message given by a piece of literature or poem is the A) Meter. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 9. Usually consists of quatrains, tells a story, and is about a tragedy A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 10. The student received a score of 50/100 on his exam. The teacher passes it back to him. The student says, "Oh great, it'll be fun explaining this one to my mom." A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal Irony. 11. What is the correct term for the following definition? A formal division of lines in a poem and is considered as a unit. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. This is a lyric poem composed of fourteen lines, is usually written in iambic pentameter, and is organized in strict divisions of stanza division and rhyme. A) Consonance. B) Sonnet. C) Hyperbole. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 13. The general subject of the poem (who? what? when? where? why? how?) A) Theme. B) Topic. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Topic. 14. An example of this is "My heart is a stereo." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. What is "repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis" ? A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Quatrain. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 16. Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 17. Honorarium A) A token payment for published work. B) Basic unit of a poem. C) Stanza of 8 lines. D) Words that sound alike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A token payment for published work. 18. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of at least two words in a line of poetry A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 19. A poetic device that repeats the beginning sound of a word for effect is called ..... For example:Bees buzz past the blooming blossoms. A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 20. Attitude of the speaker toward the subject; overall emotion expressed through words and sentence length is called: A) Tone. B) Prose. C) Free Verse. 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