This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 420 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 420 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tells a story (includes ballads, epics) A) Freeverse. B) Allusion. C) Soliloquy. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative. 2. This is an example of:The class was happy as a clam. A) Paradox. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. Identify the meaning of the idiom "Can't judge a book by its cover." A) It is easier to read a book than to protect the pages. B) It is hard to tell how something is simply from its outward appearance. C) A book's ending can't always be guessed by how it begins. D) It takes a long time to really know someone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is hard to tell how something is simply from its outward appearance. 4. Words with identical sounds but different meanings (e.g. raise/raze, stair/stare) are A) Rhyme returns. B) Riding rhyme. C) Rich rhymes. D) Compound ryme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rich rhymes. 5. A stressed (or accented) syllable. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beat. 6. The word "Mockingbird" is an example of what pattern A) Spondaic. B) Trochaic. C) Iambic. D) Dactyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dactyle. 7. A poem that expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings, and creates a mood through vivid images. A) Lyric poem. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem. 8. "She broke down in tears when she saw the ring in the box." is an example of ..... A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 9. Being bored in an action movie. Bored is the ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 10. Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows- A) The way the speaker feels about his brothers. B) The speaker's commitment to his garden. C) The speaker's lack of experience with gardening. D) The changes the speaker notices in his plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker's commitment to his garden. 11. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Which of the following statements contain no errors? A) This is a quatrain with an aaba rhyme scheme. B) This is a stanza with two couplets. C) This is a free verse quatrain. D) This is stanza with end rhyme but no meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This is a quatrain with an aaba rhyme scheme. 12. ..... is giving human characteristics to something that is not human. A) Personification. B) PersonGiving. C) Humaning. D) Emotionizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. Anaphoria A) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or line. B) Repetition a noun mentioned earlier in a sentence or passage. C) Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of all the lines of a poem. D) The use of a pronoun to refer to a noun mentioned in a different sentence or passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or line. 14. The repetition or pattern of similar vowel sounds:"Moses supposes his toeses are roses" A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 15. What is the purpose of using litotes in poetry? A) To use understatement for ironic effect. B) To create deliberate exaggeration for emphasis. C) To use an expression where the literal meaning is not the actual meaning. D) To present something as very good or correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To use understatement for ironic effect. 16. "Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum" The end rhyme here is an example of ..... A) Exact rhyme. B) Approximate, half or slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Approximate, half or slant rhyme. 17. The rhythm or "beat" of a poem. A) Mood. B) Meter. C) Metaphor. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 18. The following lines show an example of what:How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Repetition. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 19. What is it called when a metrical foot consist of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable? A) Iamb. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iamb. 20. A type of poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama; the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet A) Dramatic Poetry. B) Narrative Poetry. C) Lyric Poetry. D) None of above. 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