This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 452 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 452 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose the alliteration. A) Santa slipped on the slick floor. B) BANG!. C) He was as slow as a turtle. D) My life is a tornado right now. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Santa slipped on the slick floor. 2. Words that sound like the object or actions they refer to A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. What is "the attitude of the poet toward the subject" ? A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Concrete. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. What are the following an examples of? Fleet feet sweep, last laugh A) Assonance. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 5. A group of lines that contain a complete idea that contributes to the overall meaning. A) Pace. B) Stanza. C) Mode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 6. This type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two unlike things. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 7. What is an example of an alliteration? A) The vase flew off of the shelf. B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. C) The plant liked to fly. D) I like to eat pie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. 8. A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than" A) Personification. B) Meter. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. What is the definition of the term:Stanza? 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: C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. 10. A closed form poem is one that A) Answers important political questions of its time. B) Has no rhyme or traditional number of stanzas. C) Has a fixed form with defined patterns of rhyme, meter and repetition. D) Has ideas counter to the mainstream social norms of its time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has a fixed form with defined patterns of rhyme, meter and repetition. 11. The musical quality of poems is achieved by the poem's: A) Length. B) Drama. C) Rhyme, rhythm, repetition. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme, rhythm, repetition. 12. A rhyme with a stressed final syllable (cat-hat, run-fun, above-love) A) Internal Rhyme. B) Eye Rhyme. C) Feminine. D) Masculine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Masculine. 13. To give something importance or special attention A) Speaker. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Emphasize. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emphasize. 14. A single line of words in a poem/stanza. A) Connotation. B) Lines. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 15. The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words A) Free verse. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. A) Imagery. B) Theme. C) Meter. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 17. Regular recurrence of sound A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Scansion. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 18. Based on statements below, which is NOT TRUE about persona? A) Authors use persona to express ideas, beliefs, and voices they are not able to express freely. B) The persona of a poem strictly represents the poets themselves. C) Persona can be written in three different points of view which are first person (I), second person (you), or third person (he or she). D) Poets use persona to communicate to their audiences who they are. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The persona of a poem strictly represents the poets themselves. 19. A figure of speech in which 2 things are compared usually by saying 1 thing is another. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. The rhythmic pattern established by stresses, or beats, within each line of a poem. A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Free Verse. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. ← 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