This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that does not rhyme and does not have a regular meter or rhythm is called- A) Free verse. B) Standard verse. C) Irregular verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 2. Rhyming words that fall at the END of a line of poetry. A) Internal rhyme. B) External rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External rhyme. 3. A single row of words in a poem is called a ..... A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 4. True or False:A stanza is a paragraph in a poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is repeated A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Repetition. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 6. Moving to a scene that is in a time later in the story A) Flash forward. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flash forward. 7. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse A) Lyric. B) Song. C) Free verse. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric. 8. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth;Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem? A) AABB. B) ABBA. C) Father. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABBA. 9. Pictures drawn in the reader's mind by the words of the poet A) Refrain. B) Imagery. C) Homonym. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. Define Persona A) The attitude or feeling of the poem expressed by the poet. B) Indirect historical, cultural, or literary references that enrich the meaning of a text. C) A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse. D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The speaker or narrator in the poem. 11. What is an example of assonance? A) Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. B) He struck a streak of bad luck. C) How now bro cow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How now bro cow. 12. Words or phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses A) Alliteration. B) Figurative language. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. What is writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present called? A) Apostrophe. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 14. A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. Choose the definition for:theme A) The centrel message, concern, or purpose of a literary work. B) A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. C) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike ideas. D) The use of words that imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The centrel message, concern, or purpose of a literary work. 16. How many poems are required (for full credit) for the poetry portfolio A) 10. B) 12. C) 15. D) Quite a few. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 17. It means exactly what it says A) Literal language. B) Synonym. C) Figurative Language. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal language. 18. A haiku has how many lines A) 2. B) 3. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 19. What figurative language is used in this sentence?"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) End-stopped. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. Which poetic term is defined as "the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds" ? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. ← 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