This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 411 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 411 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rhythmic pattern of a poem A) Meter. B) Measure. C) Pentameter. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 2. The process of repeating certain words or phrases A) Enjambment. B) Apostrophe. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 3. The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader is A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. Human characteristics given to non-human things A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Free verse. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. Words which appeal to our senses A) Imagery. B) Overstatement. C) Symbol. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. What type of poem is this?Sunshine, shine brightlyAbove the clouds, in the skyA light shining bright A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 7. The tree waved to the grass. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. This is an idea or feeling that a word may hold that is in addition to its main meaning. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Parallelism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 9. A ..... is a saying that means something completely different than what the words actually say. Example:It is raining cats and dogs. A) Idiom. B) Sensory language. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 10. "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana, " is an example of which poetic device? A) Riddle. B) Pun. C) Assonance. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 11. Marking the meter A) Assonance. B) Foot. C) Rhythm. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scansion. 12. Poem that exhibits poetic language but no fixed pattern. A) Meter. B) Free verse. C) Lyric. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 13. What is internal rhyme in poetry? A) When two words within the same line rhyme. B) When every other line in a poem ends in a rhyming word. C) A poem with rhyming words in the beginning of each line. D) A poem that consist of a lot of similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When two words within the same line rhyme. 14. Which of these is the correct definition of muse? A) To consider something thoughtfully. As a noun, it means a person-especially a woman-who is a source of artistic inspiration. B) Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. C) Have a particular opinion, belief, or idea about someone or something. D) A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To consider something thoughtfully. As a noun, it means a person-especially a woman-who is a source of artistic inspiration. 15. A figure of speech in which the words are typically used to describe one thing are used to describe something else in order to show a likeness.For example:He's a bear when he first gets up in the morning. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. Frown, town, clown are all examples of ..... A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Repetition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 17. The attitude the author takes toward a subject is A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Narrative Poetry. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 18. A grouping of lines in a poem or song A) Mood. B) Alliteration. C) Stanza. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 19. 3 lines A) Couplet. B) Sestet. C) Third. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third. 20. The way an author organizes the ideas and details in a piece of writing; includes comparisons, cause-effect, chronology, and problem-solution A) Structural elements. B) Rhyme. C) Text structure. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text structure. ← 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