This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 471 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 471 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This form has a stanza of four lines A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 2. A division in a poem named for the number of lines contains. The most common are couplets (2 lines), triplet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines), cinquain (5 lines), etc. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Stanza. 3. Run-on line A) A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern. B) A rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition." Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme. C) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. D) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. 4. Using purposeful exaggeration for emphasis A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. Start/launch A) Rhyme. B) Antonym. C) Synonym. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonym. 6. What is the definition of the term:Tone? A) The set of ideas associate with a word in addition to its dictionary meaning; the feelings associated with the word. B) The feeling created in the reader by a literary work; often suggested by descriptive details and relates directly to tone. C) The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. D) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. 7. Describes where rhyming words fall within a stanza or verse A) Concrete poem. B) Symbolism. C) Rhyme pattern. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme pattern. 8. Which is the correct defintion of alliteration? A) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. B) Two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. C) A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. D) A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. 9. The man sweats to death/ As he walks along A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. ..... is language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 12. "The bees buzzed around the hive" is an example of A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 13. What do you call the narrator of the poem (the voice in the poem telling the poem)? A) Poet. B) Narrator. C) Speaker. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 14. Comparison of two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other.ex. The sun is a yellow balloon A) Mountain. B) Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. To give human characteristics to inanimate/nonliving objects A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 16. In most traditional poetry, the rhyme is organized in patterns. A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Meter. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 17. A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or than A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 18. A(n) ..... is the imitation of natural sounds using words. For example:The bacon sizzled in the pan. A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 19. A group of lines in poetry (equivalent of a paragraph in prose) A) Quatrain. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 20. Words formed by imitating the sound they make. A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. 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