This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 473 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 473 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tells a story in verse ..... has elements of fiction like plot and character A) Free verse. B) Ballad. C) Narrative poem. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative poem. 2. The attitude the poet creates in a poem A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Tone. D) Open form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 3. Pick the type of rhyme: "As Twilight long begun / Sequestered afternoon" ~~ Emily Dickinson A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 4. A grouping of lines that form a unit in a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Poem. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 5. The process of using a note to explain an idea A) Annotation. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Refrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Annotation. 6. The baby girl's smile was the sun on dark days. What does the metaphor mean above? A) The baby girl's smile made other people happy. B) When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. C) The baby never smiled. D) The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The baby girl's smile made other people happy. 7. A statement in which there is an apparent contradiction which is actually true A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Voice. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 8. Bonus Q:Finish this famous line of poetry:I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a ..... A) Tree. B) Sea. C) Bee. D) Sweet pea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tree. 9. "Nate ate half rate fish bait" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 10. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character. Ex:serious, sarcastic A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Assonance. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 11. "I have a million things to do!" is an example of which poetic device? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. The repetition of specific consonant sounds in close proximity. A) Consonance. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 13. Lines of poetry combined into groups, like a paragraph for poetry, is called A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Repetition. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 14. What is a single metrical line called in poetry? A) Denotation. B) Imagery. C) Verse. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 15. What country do Haiku poems come from? (a) A) Thailand. B) Singapore. C) A Japan. D) Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Japan. 16. Analyzing a poem for both meter and rhyme scheme is called: A) Tetrameter. B) Scansion. C) Anapest. D) Petrachian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scansion. 17. Poems without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Some poets use this type of poem to capture the sounds of ordinary speech. A) Ode. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 18. "He moves like a black cloud"This line is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. Poetic license A) A poet's departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme. B) Writing or spoken language in its ordinary paragraph form, without metrical structure. C) Wordplay that uses homonyms to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. D) A four-line stanza of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poet's departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme. 20. What is this an example of? Jose was like a sad puppy. A) Hyperbole. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. ← 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