This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 86 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 86 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The author's central idea or the message he/she is trying to convey about the world at large A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 2. Lyric A) Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse. B) A 3-lined Japanese verse form. C) Poetry that tells a story in verse. D) Poetry that has the 1st and 3rd lines having 5 syllables and the second line having 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse. 3. Read this short poem by Robert Frost, titled "Nothing Gold can Stay", then choose the rhyme scheme this poem follows:Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay. A) ABCDABCD. B) AABBCCDD. C) ABBACCD. D) ABCDCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABBCCDD. 4. When two or more words start with the same sound appear close together in a poem A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. What is:a comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as?" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 6. Stress A) Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable. B) A verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. C) A pause near the middle of a line. D) The emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others. 7. A pair of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry is called: A) The iamb. B) A meter. C) Syntax. D) A rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The iamb. 8. What senses does imagery appeal to? A) Sight only. B) Sight and hearing. C) Sight, hearing, and taste. D) All 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All 5 senses. 9. What is the definition of symbolism? A) The use of patterns that indicate different meanings. B) The use of images or objects to represent ideas or qualities. C) Resembles a picture; in a way that is striking or interesting. D) Tone of voice that indicates specific emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of images or objects to represent ideas or qualities. 10. It beats ..... as it sweeps ..... as it cleans!-is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 11. Compares one thing with another without using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. A stanza with two lines is called ..... A) Seven. B) Sestet. C) Tercet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 13. This form of poetry consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables ..... A) Haiku. B) Epitaph. C) Acrostic. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 14. Repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Repetition. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 15. The implied meaning of a word; opposite of denotation. A) Salutation. B) Activation. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 16. Oxymoron A) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. B) A poetic meter where each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. C) A poetic meter where each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. D) A figure of speech that combines opposite/contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech that combines opposite/contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'). 17. "To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells ..... " A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 18. Acts like a paragraph in prose A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 19. The voice talking to the reader in a poem A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Prose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 20. The definition of "onomatopoeia" is ..... A) The use of a sound, word, or phrase multiple times. B) Words that imitate natural sounds. C) How the speaker feels about their subject. D) The atmosphere for feeling that the poem creates for the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that imitate natural sounds. ← 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