This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 444 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 444 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Writing or speech that means something different from what's written A) Figurative language. B) Speaker. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 2. Not easily understood or clearly expressed A) Obscure. B) Intangible. C) Inadequate. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obscure. 3. The pattern of rhyming words at the end of a verse (ABAB) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 4. What is the definition of the term:Free Verse? A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. D) The audible pattern in a poem created by stressed (emphasized) syllables. E) The pattern of rhyme determined by looking at end rhyme in lines and stanzas of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. 5. To shout praise or applause A) Acclaimed. B) Legendary. C) Crossover. D) Dubious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acclaimed. 6. What is the definition of the term:Assonance? A) The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds (hat and sit). B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr). C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. 7. "A witty worm wanders widely" is an example of A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found "sweetness and pride" in the first tomato? A) He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes. B) He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato. C) Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat. D) He knows the next tomato will not taste as good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes. 9. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas A) Foot/feet. B) End rhyme. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 10. Two lines are called? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Octave. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 11. What does the word "juxtapose" mean? A) To decorate with figurative language. B) To move in a way that is vehemently aggressive. C) To place side by side or arrange in sequence. D) To prefer to stand whether to take a seat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To place side by side or arrange in sequence. 12. Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. A) Personification. B) Consonance. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. What is dramatic monologue? A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. C) Consists of three lines-line #1= 5 syllables; line #2 7 syllables; line #3 5 syllables. D) Poetry set to music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. 14. "Her eyes were like diamonds glistening in the moonlight."This is an example of what poetic term? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. "The clock stood up and walked off the wall" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. How do you identify tone in a poem? A) "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme. B) Listen to the beat. C) Find out what the poet wore when they wrote the poem. D) Have a glass of milk and listen to the poem blindfolded. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme. 17. Heroic couplet A) A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Often words at the end of lines at first seem like they will rhyme but are not pronounced in perfect rhyme. B) Verse containing seven metrical feet. C) Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. D) A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. 18. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. All Knowing! When the Narrator can tell the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters. A) Third Person Point of View. B) Third Person Limited Point of View. C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. D) Third Person Objective Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person Omniscient Point of View. 19. Poems that express personal emotions or feelings are called ..... A) Free verse poems. B) Lyrical poems. C) Narrative poems. D) Humorous poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical poems. 20. Two opposite words placed side by side A) Oxymoron. B) Personsification. C) Simile. D) Symbol. 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