This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 60 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Like a paragraph within a poem A) Scheme. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 2. What is an end-stop line? A) The end of a poem. B) The last line a poet ever writes. C) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. D) When a line stops abruptly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. 3. The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 4. What are the following an examples of? Philadelphia Flyers, Ms. McGuffin, green grass, wonderful win A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. A) Meter. B) Verse. C) Rhythm. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 6. Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry A) Rhythm. B) Assonance. C) Free Verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 7. Portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising. A) The neighbor is very generous. B) The neighbor is very kind. C) The neighbor is very stingy. D) The neighbor is very jealous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The neighbor is very stingy. 9. I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow! A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen to create certain effects. A) Form. B) Tone. C) Poetry. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 11. Author's feeling toward poem subject. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Figurative language. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 12. She soothed her secret sorrow. A) Alliteration. B) Onamatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. "Candy the yams and spice the hams, "This line is an example of ..... A) End line rhyme. B) Approximate/half or slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 14. An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tercet. 15. A humorous poem with a bouncing rhythm A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Narrative. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 16. What is the definition of tone? A) The ATTITUDE the write has towards the subject of the poem. B) The suggested meaning of a word. C) The mood of the poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ATTITUDE the write has towards the subject of the poem. 17. What is giving human traits to objects? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. A poem's form is the A) Reason the poet decided to write the poem. B) Message of the poem. C) Narrator of the poem. D) Structure or pattern that the poem follows. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure or pattern that the poem follows. 19. What is the reoccurrence of sounds, phrases, words, lines, or stanzas in a poem? A) Meter. B) Free verse. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. A ..... is a Japanese verse form with three lines. It uses imagery to create a nature scene. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Free verse. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. ← 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