This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 426 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 426 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When a story is told from the perspective of one of the characters. A) Point of View (POV). B) First Person Point of View. C) Second Person Point of View. D) Third Person Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First Person Point of View. 2. A poem that is not written in a particular rhyme, stanza, or form. A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Hyperbole. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 3. John is going to judge a juggling jamboree in July. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. Four lines are called A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Octave. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 5. A five-line poem with the rhyme scheme of AABBA. Lines 1, 2 and 5 have the same number of syllables (usually nine) and lines 3 and 4 are shorter. A limerick is funny and tends to have an unexpected ending A) Verses. B) Stanza. C) Limerick. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 6. The repetition of an entire line or group of lines in a poem A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 7. Which type of poem has TWO lines that make up a stanza? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 8. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using a phrase that includes the word like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 9. Vivid description using the five senses A) Stanza. B) Connotation. C) Repetition. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. Candy is ..... she loves A) Something. B) Something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something. 11. The repetition of ending sounds A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Free verse. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 12. The systematic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry, creating a rhythmic pattern A) Hyperbole. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 13. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are near each other in poetry or in writing. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. Which connotation is MORE negative? I didn't like the ..... on the jester's face. A) Grin. B) Smirk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smirk. 15. The longest river in the world. It flows north from Uganda in East Africa through Sudan and Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea. A) Mississippi River. B) Nile River. C) Rocky River. D) Euphrates river. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nile River. 16. A special type of creative writing that doesn't usually follow a set of rules and is made up of stanzas and lines is called a- A) Poem. B) Ballad. C) Persuasive writing. D) Descriptive writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 17. Which sets of words are examples of onomatopoeia? A) Dog, Cat, Cow. B) Buzz, Hiss, Pop. C) Happy, Sad, Angry. D) Blue, Red, Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buzz, Hiss, Pop. 18. Poems are mostly made of ..... A) Concrete diction. B) Abstract diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete diction. 19. Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm A) Ode. B) Haiku. C) Free verse. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 20. What is the general term for methods like alliteration that are used by an author to emphasize specific sounds in poetry? A) Figurative language. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Sound devices. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound devices. ← 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