This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 425 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 425 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A verse made up of four lines A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Verse. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 2. Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement (NO strict meter or rhyme scheme) A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Structure. D) End-stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 3. What is the tone of the following passage? The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it ..... hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room. A) Eerie. B) Sarcastic. C) Passionate. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous. 4. Descriptive language that appeals to the senses. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 5. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Balled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 6. What is the repetition of words (or phrases) at the start of a series of lines in a poem for dramatic effect called? A) Form. B) Anaphora. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 7. The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence-more than once A) Repetition. B) Lyric. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 8. Poetry that does not follow a regular rhytmic pattern or rhyme scheme. A) Dialect. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 9. In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play A) Exposition. B) Alliteration. C) Epistrophe. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 10. What is the purpose of "A Poison Tree, " by William Blake? A) To tell about a tree in his yard. B) To tell about his feelings of anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To tell about his feelings of anger. 11. The repeating of consonants at the end of words A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 12. The feelings that words bring about A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Rhyme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 13. Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind is ..... A) Imagery. B) Theme. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. Which type of figurative language shows extreme exaggeration for dramatic emphasis. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 15. Falling meter A) A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another. B) Repitition of a vowel sound or dipthong in non-ryhming words. C) A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. D) Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. 16. I lift myself.I raise, Unafraid and daring. A) Internal Rhyme. B) Diction. C) Meter. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 17. A figure of speech comparing two things using like or as A) Onomatopoeia. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 18. How many lines does a quatrain have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 19. Repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the end of words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 20. A poem with a shape that suggests its subject; the poet arranges letters, words, punctuation, and lines to create a picture A) Concrete poem. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete poem. ← 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