This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 463 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 463 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the tone of the following sentence?The front door burst open as the toddler gleefully jumped into his awaiting father's arms. A) Serious. B) Suspicious. C) Matter-of-fact. D) Joyful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joyful. 2. A poem usually told in the first person that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker is called- A) Narrative poem. B) Lyric poem. C) Rhyming poem. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poem. 3. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit ..... comparable to a paragraph if it were prose ..... A) Sensory imagery. B) Lines. C) Stanzas. D) Vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 4. Dora drew her dog on the door. A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. What term means the message the poet is trying to convey? A) Theme. B) Speaker. C) Tone. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 6. The correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words, often used in poetry A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Intonation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 7. An extreme exaggeration used for effect A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.'? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 9. How does Porphyria enter the cottage? A) She glides in. B) She rushes in. C) She slams the door. D) She's warm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She glides in. 10. Hyperboles are phrases that A) Compare two unlike things. B) Exaggerate. C) Give person-like qualities to animals and things. D) Have a different meaning than the words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggerate. 11. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Poems are shaped to look like their subjects? A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Concrete. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 12. A group of related lines in a poem is called ..... A) Rhyming words. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 13. A rhyme scheme is: A) A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem or song. B) The repeated use of a word, phrase, sound or pattern. C) The pattern of rhyming sounds at the ends of lines in a poem. D) The way to capture natural rhythms of ordinary speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of rhyming sounds at the ends of lines in a poem. 14. A..... verse poem does NOT use rhyme or patterns.Show Answers A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free. 15. The person that writes poetry A) The speaker. B) The narrator. C) The poet. D) The author. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet. 16. The literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words-the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. A) Style. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Style. 17. Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning-little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door-Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore." Which line contains internal rhyme? A) Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,. B) Though its answer little meaning-little relevancy bore;. C) Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,. 18. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called ..... A) Poetry. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 19. What two things are being compared in the following metaphor? The crab was a dancing pair of scissors, clicking across the sand. A) Crab and Sand. B) Crab and dancing scissors. C) Scissors and sand. D) Dancing and sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crab and dancing scissors. 20. The main unit of a poem is a A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. ← 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