This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 485 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 485 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A form of poetry, usually suitable for singing, that tells a story in stanzas of two or four lines A) Free verse. B) Narrative. C) Lyric. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 2. Words that rhyme in the SAME line A) End Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal Rhyme. 3. In poetry, the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a poem. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 4. How do you find the rhyme scheme of a poem? A) See which lines are the same syllables. B) Look at the last words of the line and label which ones rhyme. C) Label each line A-Z. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Look at the last words of the line and label which ones rhyme. 5. Repetition of the same beginning sound of words A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Free verse. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. A comparison using like or as is: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. "Love is a burning candle" A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. Tools used by poets to appeal to the reader's ears as they read poems. Example:alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm A) Rhythm. B) Sound devices. C) Meter. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound devices. 9. Poem whose form suggests the content A) Ode. B) Conceit. C) Ballad. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concrete. 10. What is a common theme for Haikus? A) Lemons. B) People. C) War. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 11. A humorous poem that is three long and two short lines that rhyme in the AABBA pattern. A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Free Verse. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 12. A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. A) Idiom. B) Connotation. C) Paradox. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 13. Language in which the words mean exactly what they say is ..... A) Figurative. B) Literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal. 14. Giving human qualities to an object or abstract idea A) Sonnet. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. What is a "definite beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables" ? A) Metphor. B) Humor. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 16. Alliteration is a form of ..... ; in this case, what we are repeating are sounds. A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 17. Which describes a haiku? A) 14 lines and 10 syllables per line. B) 3 unrhymed lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables. C) 5 lines with the rhyme scheme AABA. D) A poem that expresses emotion in first person. E) Written to or about a particular subject; not usually a lot of rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 unrhymed lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables. 18. What type of figurative language is shown? Her smile was as bright as sunshine. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 19. The following is an example of what:My chores were a mountain waiting to be climbed A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. A verse with irregular metrical pattern and length. Not a traditional poem. A) Limerick. B) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. ← 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