This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 54 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 54 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work or work of art. A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 2. A term in basketball where one player dunks emphatically on an opposing player A) Crossover. B) Acclaimed. C) Posterizing. D) Feelers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Posterizing. 3. All of the following terms are shown EXCEPT which one?"I looked onwards in awe and said teach me.Teach me to fly through the air like the first flight of pegasus." A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. Ex:an olive branch usually represents the idea of peace. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 5. An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. For example, a ring represents marriage, faithfulness, and/or a promise. A) Allusion. B) Ballad. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 6. Why is personification used in poetry and what effect does it create? A) Personification creates confusion and lack of clarity in poetry. B) Personification creates a more vivid and imaginative description in poetry. C) Personification makes poetry more boring and dull. D) Personification has no effect on the imagery in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification creates a more vivid and imaginative description in poetry. 7. This literary technique is used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion and to set the mood for the work. It can be achieved through word choice, the grammatical arrangement of words (syntax), imagery, or details that are included or omitted A) Tone. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 8. A collection of two or more lines in a poem is called a A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 9. Recurring (over and over again) identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse. For example:may, play, lay A) Free. B) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 10. A group of words in a row; the unit of a poem A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Free verse. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 11. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Pattern. C) Meter. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 12. A couplet consists of A) 1 line in a stanza. B) 3 lines in a stanza. C) 2 lines in a stanza. D) 4 lines in a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 lines in a stanza. 13. A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Poetry. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 14. * A poem that does not follow a consistent rhythm or rhyme* These poems focus on imagery, word choice and figurative language free from traditional structure. A) Couplet. B) Mood. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 15. This is when one thing takes the place of something else like an idea. A) Tone. B) Symbolism. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 16. Poetry that does not rhyme and does not follow any specific structure A) Free verse. B) Concrete poetry. C) Lyric poetry. D) Narrative poetry. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 17. A comparison of two unlike things, without using like or as A) Adage. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 18. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. A) Limerick. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 19. The author's attitude in a piece of literature A) Tone. B) Sonnet. C) Point of view. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 20. Paragraphs in poems are called what? A) Word choice. B) Stanzas. C) 4 line couplets. D) Metaphors. E) Paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. ← 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