This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 451 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 451 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is the person in a play that is telling the story. A) Speaker. B) Narrator. C) Character. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 2. A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. A metaphor that gives objects and animals human qualities A) Onomatopoeia. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. This is a lyric poem about a serious topic, usually written in a precise structure. A) Ode. B) Concrete. C) Haiku. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 5. The word that makes the sound as its definition. A) Couplet. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Image. D) Sound source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. Words that appeal to a reader's fives senses:see, hear, smell, taste, touch-that create a picture in their mind. A) Imagery. B) Figurative language. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. A poem that does not rhyme is called ..... A) Free verse. B) Short Story. C) Essay. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 8. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in 2 or more stressed syllables. A) Assonance. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 9. A free verse poem has..... A) No stanzas. B) A regular beat (rhythm). C) Short lines that rhyme. D) No rhyme or rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No rhyme or rhythm. 10. A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Foot. C) Stress. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 11. Discord is a(n) A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 12. The use of something concrete to represent something deeper or more abstract A) Symbolism. B) Meter. C) Theme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 13. A phrase or an expression (sometimes called figure of speech) that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. EX. "It's raining cats and dogs." A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. An example:Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope. A) Denotation. B) Couplet. C) Rhythm. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 15. A section of a poem, ALSO types of poems A) Poetry. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verse. 16. Rhythmic patterns in poetry are called A) Beats. B) Meters. C) Iambs. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meters. 17. A group of words forming a phrase or sentence consisting of one or more lines repeated atintervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza A) Rhyme. B) Chorus. C) Repetition. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 18. Please put away your paints and practice the piano. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter is A) Ballad. B) Verse. C) Free verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 20. A large exaggeration A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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