This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 483 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 483 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the words start with the same letter. A) Line. B) Alliteration. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. What is the term for the main message or lesson in a poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Theme. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 3. A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line-no pause or break A) Archetype. B) Enjambment. C) Metrics. D) Rhyme Scheme:Internal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 4. Emotional quality of a story or poem A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 5. What is meter measured in? A) Miles. B) Feet. C) Centimeters. D) Inches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feet. 6. When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't A) Dramatic hyperbole. B) Dramatic imagery. C) Dramatic irony. D) Dramatic simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 7. Rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse A) Exact Rhyme. B) Multisyllabic Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme. 8. The time, place, and cirmcumstances that the poem is about. A) Setting. B) Reader. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 9. Type of poetry that is meant to be performed A) Spoken word poetry. B) Free verse poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spoken word poetry. 10. Giving inanimate objects human qualities, such as "the sun kissed her cheeks on the hot summer day" is known as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. A group of words in poetry that may or may not be a complete sentence A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Ode. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 12. Repeating similar sounds of consonants, not necessarily at the beginning of the words A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Enjambment. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 13. Which of the following is the definition of tone? A) The voice the reader uses when reading a poem out loud. B) The overall mood, attitude, or feeling of the poem. C) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. D) When an author uses a word that mimics a sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The overall mood, attitude, or feeling of the poem. 14. ..... is a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect. A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Pun. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion. 15. A reference to another text, historical event, art, etc. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 16. Not-rhyming lines that follow the natural rhythms of speech A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 17. Using word with the same or similar ending sounds A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 18. A poem that sounds similar to everyday speech (with no rhyme or meter) is called ..... A) Free verse. B) Captive verse. C) Acrostic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 19. ..... is the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 20. The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is ..... A) THE FATHER. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) AABB CCDD EEFF. D) No rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. ← 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