This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 408 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 408 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How the reader feels about the text while reading A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 2. An ode A) Must have 5 or more stanzas. B) Praises the subject of the poem. C) Has to rhyme. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Praises the subject of the poem. 3. "Annabel Lee" is classified as a ..... A) Narrative poem. B) Short story. C) Novel. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative poem. 4. The affix bio-means A) Self. B) Life. C) Science. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 5. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called ..... A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Idiom. D) Repitition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 6. The rhyme or beat established by a poem. A) Meter. B) Word order. C) Voice or POV. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 7. ..... includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader's experience through their senses. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Descriptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 8. A serious poem containing exactly 14 lines, made famous by Shakespeare A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Narrative poem. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 9. Dylan Thomas' repetition of the word "rage" in his poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" is an example of ..... A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 10. Main idea or topic. For example:friendship, love, life A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Attitude. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 11. A word that is the same as another word. An example:Crying = Sobbing A) Synonym. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonym. 12. A fourteen-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, often written in iambic pentameter. A) Ode. B) Metaphor. C) Sonnet. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 13. The author or speaker's ATTITUDE toward a character or subject of a text is ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 14. The author's attitude toward the subject or text A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 15. What is a small part of a larger work? A) Stanza break. B) Dedication. C) Excerpt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Excerpt. 16. ..... is the process of giving human qualities to something that isn't human. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. Which technique is illustrated in the following lines:On Saturday, she silentlyScribbled something in the sunshineAnd sighed as a swift swooshScrambled her shiny, simple sayings. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. The use of words that help the reader understand how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel. A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). B) Verse (verse). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). 19. Repeated words, phrases, sentences A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 20. Organic poems..... A) Have no patterns and no fixed rules (including punctuation/spelling). B) Come from the soul. C) Trigger the audience. D) Are all free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have no patterns and no fixed rules (including punctuation/spelling). ← 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