This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 76 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 76 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fixed form A) A figure of speech that combines opposite/contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'). B) A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. C) Verse containing seven meterical feet. D) Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line. 2. How a poem or text is organized internally based on its ideas A) Stanza. B) Diction. C) Form. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 3. What is it called when poetry does not have a rhyme or a regular meter? A) Enjambment. B) Blank Verse. C) Paradox. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free Verse. 4. Is honor or glorifying an event or inanimate object. Feelings not emotional. A) Balled. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 5. What do words like "Bang!" and "Meow!" exemplify in poetry? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. Words linked because of sound A) Iambic pentameter. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 7. Identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (also known as near rhyme or slant rhyme):home and same, worth and breath, trophy and daffy. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Euphony. E) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 8. "I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me"is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 9. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.What is this an example of? A) Elision. B) Litotes. C) Synecdoche. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 10. Words like "achoo! pow! whoosh! splat!" are examples of which literary term? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 11. A repetition of similar sounds.Example:She sells seashells by the seashore. A) Alliteration. B) Rhythm. C) Topography. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. When something unexpected happens A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Mood. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 13. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ? A) Point of view. B) Tone. C) Complex attitude. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 14. A two line stanza A) Couplet. B) Triplet. C) Quatrain. D) Quintet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 15. What type of language is a collection of words and phrases that shares an idea beyond the literal meaning? A) Figurative. B) Normal. C) Beyond-the-meaning language. D) Image language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative. 16. Rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein") A) Big Rhymes. B) Long Rhyme. C) Multisyllabic Rhymes. D) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multisyllabic Rhymes. 17. A one word subject present throughout a literary work. Can be used to create a main topic. A) Theme. B) Motif. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 18. The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Speaker. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. Which word is defined as the "repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the s in sleep-song" ? A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 20. Literal language A) Language that is not what it says. B) Language that you have to read between the lines. C) Language that means exactly what it says. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language that means exactly what it says. ← 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