This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 464 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 464 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of related lines that forms a division of a poem or a song (a paragraph). A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 2. A poem written in an established pattern A) Free Verse. B) Metered. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metered. 3. What is the difference between repetition and alliteration? A) Alliteration is repeated words; repetition is sounds. B) Repetition is repeated words, alliteration is sounds. C) Alliteration only applies to animals, while repetition is for animals and people. D) One is used in poetry and one is used in short stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition is repeated words, alliteration is sounds. 4. What is a "pair of rhyming lines" ? A) Couplet. B) Repetition. C) Meter. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 5. A stylized literary reference A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. What is a two-line poem that rhymes? A) Quatrain. B) Alliteration. C) Couplet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 7. What is the definition of hyperbole in poetry? A) A form of poetry that uses a specific meter. B) A type of rhyme used in poetry. C) Exaggeration for emphasis or dramatic effect. D) A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exaggeration for emphasis or dramatic effect. 8. When a line does not stop at the end of a line A) Enjambment. B) Cutting. C) Cacophony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 9. Talking the talk of growing things-/ Wind and water and weather A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. Discuss the role of alliteration in creating rhythm and sound in poetry. A) Alliteration only affects the meaning of the words in poetry. B) Alliteration helps in creating rhythm and sound in poetry by repeating initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. C) Alliteration has no impact on the rhythm and sound of poetry. D) Alliteration creates visual imagery in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration helps in creating rhythm and sound in poetry by repeating initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. 11. To emphasize means to ..... A) Show that something is important. B) Write a poem. C) Tell a story. D) Play a game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Show that something is important. 12. A long narrative poem that usually tells about the deeds of a hero A) Epic. B) Epitaph. C) Lyrical. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 13. Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's Wold by Edna St Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!Thy mists that roll and rise!" A) Accent. B) Apostrophe. C) Anapest. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. Lines or words that have the same ending sound A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 15. An implied comparison between two things without like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. "I'm as chill as a polar bear" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. In the sentence, "When the cat stalks his prey, he is a shadow, " what two things are being compared? A) The cat and its prey. B) The cat and its shadow. C) The cat and a shadow. D) The prey and its shadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cat and a shadow. 18. Which of these would be considered a poem? A) A paragraph from a novel. B) Song lyrics. C) A conversation between two people. D) Any sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Song lyrics. 19. Words or phrases that use description to create pictures or images in the reader's mind. (5 senses). A) Cacophony. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 20. What is the rhyme scheme for this stanza?A short while later, through the wood, Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood, The wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze, And yellowish, like mayonnaise. A) Father. B) ABCD. C) AABB. D) AABC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AABB. ← 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