This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 461 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 461 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A song or poem that tells a story. They usually have a simple, steady rhythm and are passed on orally from one generation to the next. Some country and folk music songs that tell a story are ballads. A) Hyperbole. B) Assonance. C) Understatement. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 2. Identify the figurative language used below?Sean was so angry his mom suggested that he go to the park and blow off some steam, so he went to shoot hoops with his boys. Instead of Sean being mean like a snapping turtle he was as sweet as pie. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 3. Deck; designated space for the performance of productions A) Set. B) Theatre. C) Stage. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage. 4. ..... is when a non-human object is given human characteristics. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. Identify the type of figurative language in the line below.Michael is so tall that is seemed like his legs stretched on for an eternity. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. What is a Structured poem A) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have no regular pattern or rhyme scheme. B) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have a regular repeated pattern. C) Poem that tells a story contains characters, conflict, plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem with lines and/or stanzas that have a regular repeated pattern. 7. Celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. A) Ode. B) Song. C) Elegy. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 8. Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines with no set meter A) Free Verse. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Metrical Verse. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 9. Poetry that tells a story; it includes a beginning, middle, and end, and often has dialogue A) Free verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Lyric poetry. D) Narrative poetry. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrative poetry. 10. An exaggeration made for effect. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. The arrangement of words and lines on a page (in poetry) A) Style. B) Shape. C) Form. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 12. A group of words arranged into a row A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 13. Which term refers to the act of giving human characteristics to objects or abstract ideas? A) Personification. B) Pun. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. A prayer A) Muse. B) Invocation. C) Epithet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invocation. 15. Which pair of words gives the best example of a slant rhyme? A) Spring, bring. B) Bet, brush. C) First, call. D) Perch, latch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perch, latch. 16. A word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 17. A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definitive rhyme scheme is called A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 18. A word that imitates the sound it makes A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 19. Story told from a character within the story A) Narrator. B) First person pov. C) Third person pov. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First person pov. 20. Writing that is not poetry A) Metaphor. B) Poem. C) Stanza. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose. ← 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