This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 77 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 77 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Pattern of rhyme, that repeats across different stanzas A) Rhyme scheme. B) Poetry. C) Alliteration. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 2. A ..... is a group of related lines in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Narrative poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 3. A Latin term meaning "in the middle of things" A) Myth. B) Hubris. C) Muse. D) In media res. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In media res. 4. What is the role of the poet in a poem? A) To use words that imitate the sound they are naming. B) To express ideas, feelings, or tell a story in a specific form. C) To give human qualities to non-human things. D) To compare two unlike things not using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express ideas, feelings, or tell a story in a specific form. 5. You can have some rhymes in free verse A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. 'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade' is an example of A) Simile. B) Image. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia StoutWould not take the garbage out.She'd scour the pots and scrape the pansCandy the yams and spice the hams." A) Rhyming quatrains. B) AABB. C) Father. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABB. 8. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. A) Allusion. B) Sensory language. C) Personification. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 9. Understatement is A) A comparison using 'like or as'. B) An exaggeration. C) A rhythmic pattern. D) A lack of emphasis of expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lack of emphasis of expression. 10. Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. Repetition of vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 12. IN order to complete a Lego set you must Trace or ..... the instructions. A) Find out, choose or select. B) Break apart. C) Realize or understand. D) To follow the steps/outline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To follow the steps/outline. 13. A stanza with 8 lines is called ..... A) Seven. B) Quatrain. C) Tercet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. 14. 'A kitten wailed in a basket dementedly'. 'Dementedly' is: A) An adjective. B) A verb. C) An adverb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An adverb. 15. Kirsten Has Worst Idea Ever Kirsten and her friends had been looking forward to performing together in the school talent show for months, but they couldn't agree on what to do in their act. Near the end of a long and disappointing planning session, Kirsten suggested that the girls learn a new song on the recorders that they had purchased for their music class. Not surprisingly, Kirsten's friends immediately called the suggestion out for being the worst idea ever. What type of figurative language is used? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. The substitution of a related word or phrase for that to which the substitution refers; this device depends on collective understanding A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 17. Which choice has the most POSITIVE (+) connotation? I admire the man who jumped on the subway tracks to rescue a stranger. He was certainly ..... A) Foolhearty. B) Courageous. C) Rash. D) Reckless. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Courageous. 18. The feeling the reader gets when reading the author's words. A) Tone. B) Attitude. C) Mood. D) Grumpy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 19. Rhyme is A) Words that are spelled the same. B) Having the same word at the end of lines. C) Having the same sound at the end of two or more words or phrases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having the same sound at the end of two or more words or phrases. 20. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of poetic devices? A) Enhance Meaning. B) Confuse Students. C) Create Rhythm. D) Intensify Meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Confuse Students. ← 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