This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 85 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 85 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions A) Concrete diction. B) Theme. C) Abstract diction. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete diction. 2. One line of words. A) Line. B) Line Break. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 3. A form that follows fixed rules A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Traditional. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 4. Written with "I" as the subject; narrator is part of poem; Pronouns:I, me, we, us, our, mine, my A) 1st Person. B) 2nd Person. C) 3rd Person. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st Person. 5. Building of excitement in a text A) Suspense. B) Dialect. C) Imagery. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suspense. 6. Which is an example of repetition A) POW!. B) Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. C) Bye, dye, rye. D) That's golden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. 7. A 14 line poem, usually rhymed with a very specific pattern, written in iambic pentameter is called: A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) So nice. D) Lymeric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So nice. 8. A comparison between two things that does not us "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. Which is the best example of abstract diction? A) Police officer. B) Badge. C) Justice. D) Illegal substance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Justice. 10. A rhyming two-line unit in a poem A) Quatrain. B) Ballad. C) Couplet. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 11. What is the correct term for the following definition? A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which word rhymes with all three? butterfly shy multiply A) Bite. B) Eye. C) Ugly. D) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eye. 13. Traditional poetry follows patterns for rhyme, meter, or stanza length. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. What uses language to create mental images? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 15. Makes a comparison between two things NOT using the words LIKE or AS. A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 16. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening" -Robert Frost Where is the refrain in this poem? A) The woods. B) Deep, keep, sleep. C) I have promises to keep. D) And miles to go before I sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) And miles to go before I sleep. 17. Under exaggeration; using a negative statement to affirm a positive A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Mood. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 18. Which of the following terms is defined as:the main message that an author wants to communicate to a reader A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Free verse. D) Sonnet. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 19. Normal writing ..... all grammar rules apply would be considered: A) Free Verse. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Prose. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 20. An example of feminine rhyme is A) Play the game/say the name. B) Darkling/sparkling. C) Whose/noose. D) Ceramic/Mohammed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkling/sparkling. ← 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