This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 413 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 413 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "A terrible beauty is born, " is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 2. The feeling that the reader is left with after reading a poem A) Attitude. B) Setting. C) Audience. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 3. What type of figurative language compares two similar items by using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. How long was Mr. Voyak's study plan? A) 10 minutes. B) 20 minutes. C) 30 minutes. D) 60 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20 minutes. 5. The place where the author chooses to end one line and go down to the next. This creates a natural pause. A) Line Break. B) Stanza. C) Free Verse Poetry. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line Break. 6. When a word or phrase repeats. "I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch ..... " A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. This is the musical quality, or beat, heard in a poem A) Form. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 8. The arrangement of words or lines on the page to produce a desired effect A) Shape poem. B) Rhyme. C) Structure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structure. 9. The term for having punctuation at the end of a line A) End stop. B) Enjambment. C) Near rhyme. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End stop. 10. This poem type has no set rules, no rhyme or rhythm A) Diamante. B) Free verse. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 11. An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death-often a tribute to a person who has died recently. A) Elegy. B) End rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 12. Which term means the repetition of a consonant sound? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. Irony occurring when an author or character's meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words. A) Verbal Irony. B) Motives. C) Flat Characters. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 14. Don't let the cat out of the bag. A) Idiom. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 15. What is a pattern of rhyme at the end of each line, annotated with letters? A) Line. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 16. What poetic term is defined as "exaggeration" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 17. Used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses A) Blank verse. B) Cutting. C) Metaphor. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 18. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other certain sound patterns. A) Sound devices. B) Poetry. C) Rhythm. D) Lyrics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 19. Poetic devices like meter, refrain, stanza, and verse all fall into the category of A) Sound devices. B) Form. C) Figurative language. D) Useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 20. A literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form. A) Rhythm. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. ← 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