This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 484 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 484 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem which is labeled with letters of the alphabet A) Rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 2. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas that is meant to be sung A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 3. "He could hear the howling of the approaching storm and see the debris thrown around the farm." This is an example of ..... ? A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Sensory Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory Imagery. 4. Plays are also known as dramas. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between of the poem. A) Verse. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 6. "the blue bells were broken by Billy Brown" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Over-exaggeration for effect. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Motif. C) Hyperbole. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. A piece of creative writing that uses both speech and sound, and usually has rhyme and rhythm. A) Novel. B) Essay. C) Short Story. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poem. 9. Which term means a group of lines in a poem? A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) End rhyme. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 10. In poetry, the rhythm that is created by the sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Enjambment. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 11. A poem that doesn't follow specific rules for rhythm or rhyme is written in A) Free verse. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Prose poem. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 12. The author's attitude toward the subject is called A) Topic. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 13. How she sat beside him cross-legged, telling him stories of her childhood. Return and return again.How she closed her eyes when his were open, how they breathed together, breathing each other. Return and return again.How they fell into slumber, their bodies curled together like two spoons. Return and return again."O Best of all Nights" -James Laughlin Where is the refrain? A) Into slumber. B) How she closed her eyes. C) Telling him stories. D) Return and return again. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Return and return again. 14. This is the writer's attitude towards his or her audience or topic. A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 15. Makes a comparison using LIKE or AS A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. The repetition of vowel sounds ex. She leaves green tweezers on the street.ex. He mumbled from under his bundle of clothes. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 17. This is is when a poet repeat the beginning consonant sounds of words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. Choose the answer that is not a hyperbole. A) My house is as big as North America. B) My brother is smaller than a seed. C) I ate a truck-full of food. D) I'm taller then you. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I'm taller then you. 19. A comparison between two objects using "like" or "as" to compare the two objects. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 20. True/False:The speaker of the poem must be the author. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← 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