This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 58 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 58 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The structure of a poem; the way its words and lines are arranged. A) Form. B) Meter. C) Alliteration. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 2. The vantage point of the speaker, or "teller" of the story or poem. A) Stance. B) Verse. C) Point of view. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point of view. 3. The fog is a cat/ sneaking upon the unaware city A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. Giving human qualities to non-living objects A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. I ..... my favorite poem and learned it by heart. A) Satisfaction. B) Ambitious. C) What poem. D) Memorized. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Memorized. 6. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, written out as letters, such as AABB or ABAB. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 7. Means extreme exaggeration A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. Form of Japanese poetry that consists of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables A) Haiku. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 9. What word refers to the underlying message the author wants you to think about? A) Theme. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 10. Eight lines are called? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Octave. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octave. 11. A pair of rhyming lines is called a A) Quatrain. B) Haiku. C) Couplet. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 12. Diction A) -the central or unifying idea that is developed in a work. B) -the expressions of the author's attitude toward the subject matter. C) A poem which is written in prose format; i.e. it has no fixed lines. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word choice. 13. A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison. A) Haiku. B) Diction. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 14. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. What words rhyme? A) Cloud/crowd. B) Hills/daffodils. C) Trees/breeze. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words? A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 16. Dizzy David drew a dinosaur. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. You see your best friend's girlfriend kissing someone else at snack. You walk to your next class and you see your best friend who says, "Hey man, I'm so excited to see my girl later on. I'm gonna ask her to Prom! Have you seen her today?" A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 18. What is the definition of rhyme? A) The repetition of similar sounds at the end of two or more words. B) The repetition of similar meanings at the end of two or more words. C) The repetition of similar sounds in the middle of two or more words. D) The repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of two or more words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of similar sounds at the end of two or more words. 19. The central message of a literary work ..... the universal meaning A) Theme. B) Connotation. C) Tone. D) Details. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 20. What are the red letters an example of?The people along the sand (A)All turn and look one way. (B)They turn their back on the land. (A)They look at the sea all day. (B)As long as it takes to pass (C)A ship keeps raising its hull; (C)The wetter ground like glass (D)Reflects a standing gull. (D) A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. ← 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