This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 477 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 477 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event. A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Epithet. D) Invocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 2. He was ..... to go swimming A) Abl. B) Able. C) Abe. D) Abl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Able. 3. A rhythmic pattern of stressed-unstressed syllables A) Iamb. B) Trochee. C) Anapest. D) Cadence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trochee. 4. Repeating vowel sounds in nearby words A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 5. ..... is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 6. Poetry that uses a strict meter (a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and a strict rhyme scheme A) Sonnet. B) Formal verse. C) Ballad. D) Third person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal verse. 7. The rhythmic pattern established by stresses or beat within each line of a poem. A) Meter. B) Denotation. C) Internal rhythm. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 8. What is the definition of the term:Perfect Rhyme? A) Rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry. B) The rhyming words have the exact same pattern of spelling or pronunciation. C) Rhyming words have similar, but not perfect patterns of sounds. D) Rhyme within a line of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rhyming words have the exact same pattern of spelling or pronunciation. 9. Which word is considered figurative language? A) Personification. B) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. A type of free verse poem where the first letter of each line, read down the page, spells the subject of them poem A) Haiku. B) Acrostic. C) Haiku. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 11. The emotion in the poem created by the poet and also what the reader feels while reading the poem A) Speaker. B) Author's Purpose. C) Mood. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 12. 3-line Japanese verse; 5-7-5 pattern A) Narrative. B) Haiku. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 13. A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Poetry. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. Divisions of a poem A) Sestet. B) Quatrain. C) Stanza. D) Unit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 15. A sentence of a poem A) Line. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Stanza. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 16. Stylistic device in which the repeated vowel sound to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Free verse. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 17. What type of poetry has no pattern? A) Shakespeare. B) Sonnet. C) Imagery. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 18. What is the term for the main idea or message of a poem? A) Plot. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 19. The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 20. In poetry, a stanza is like a ..... in prose. A) Word. B) Page. C) Paragraph. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paragraph. ← 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