This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 75 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 75 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of very descriptive, sensory language A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 2. A haiku does not rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Using letters to indicate which lines rhyme such as abab or aabb is referred to as A) Meter. B) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 4. The speaker of a poem is its narrator. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. A foot of verse containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, is ..... A) Sonnet. B) Rhyme. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iamb. 6. What is the definition of rhyme in poetry? A) Repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines or within lines. B) Repetition of similar words at the end of lines. C) Repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of lines. D) Repetition of similar themes within a poem. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines or within lines. 7. Which is an example of a Pun? A) I got into a fight with a snail. It was a real slug-fest. B) Comparison not using like or as. C) The Pythagorean Thorum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I got into a fight with a snail. It was a real slug-fest. 8. Define Simile A) Compare two unlike things using "like" or "as". B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. C) Compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as". D) A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare two unlike things using "like" or "as". 9. The central or unifying idea that is developed in a poem. A) Theme. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 10. What is the definition of a alliteration? A) A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as". B) The negative attributes associated with a word or phrase. C) The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings. D) The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of the word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of the word. 11. No regular beat or rhyme A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 12. What are words that imitate sounds? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Synonym. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 13. Consider in the film I Am Legend. Will Smith, the last man on earth, seeks comfort in attempting to speak to a mannequin. This is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Apostrophe. C) Anagram. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. A short, musical poem that usually expresses personal feeling in a short and concise, and beautiful, way. A) Acrostic. B) Cinquain. C) Lyric. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 15. A very tall basketball player standing next to a very short gymnast A) Juxtaposition. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 16. What is a sentence? A) Group of words that express a complete thought. B) Sentences that are grouped together. C) Words of sentences that quote what a person has said. D) Major division of a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Group of words that express a complete thought. 17. When iambic rhythm happens 5 times in a line, making 10 syllables of alternating stresses A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Blank verse. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 18. A type of poetry that has a fixed number of syllables, stanzas, rhyme scheme and/or meter A) Rhyme scheme. B) Fixed verse. C) Free verse. D) Open form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed verse. 19. Word pictures created through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Near rhyme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. What is the main characteristic of a ballad? A) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. B) To describe one thing as if it were something else. C) To give human qualities to something that is not human. D) Song like poems that tell stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Song like poems that tell stories. ← 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