This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 99 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 99 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A stanza with 7 lines is called ..... A) Seven. B) Octave. C) Cinquain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seven. 2. Poetry is a A) Literary genre that gives emotion in verses. B) Literary genre that narrates in prose. C) Literary genre that is used in everyday conversation. D) Literary genre that is barely used, employing prose and verses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary genre that gives emotion in verses. 3. "Flies buzzing in my ear make me feel dizzy" is an example of A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Sensory Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory Imagery. 4. "Casey at the Bat" is an example of a A) Ballad. B) Narrative. C) Free verse. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 5. Sentence structure A) End-stopped line. B) Refrain. C) Couplet. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 6. The narrator of a poem is called ..... A) Poet. B) Narrator. C) Speaker. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 7. The pattern of rhyme in verse, usually coded, to represent identical or very similar FINAL sounds in lines of verse. EX:the aabba pattern for limericks. A) Rhythm (ritmo). B) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 8. That cat is like a furry demon. A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. Which example below is an example of juxtaposition? A) There is a real love hate relationship developing. B) Better late than never. C) This is a genuine imitation Rolex watch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Better late than never. 10. Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable A) Rising meter. B) Falling meter. C) Couplet. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rising meter. 11. Create A) Loud verse read in rhyme. B) Bring into existence. C) Following a poetic formula. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bring into existence. 12. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter A) Lyric Poem. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 13. Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. Poetic devices like hyperbole, symbolism, metaphor, and personification all fall into the category of ..... A) Sound devices. B) Form. C) Figurative language. D) Useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 15. A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. A) Cutting. B) Chiasmus. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 16. A type of poem in which the first letters of each line form a word. A) Acrostic. B) Narrative poem. C) Sonnet. D) Concrete poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrostic. 17. A writer of verse is often called a A) Poet. B) Poem Person. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 18. Villanelle A) A nineteen-line poem divided into five three line (tercet) stanzas and ending with a four-line stanza (quatrain), with a regular rhyme scheme and two refrains echoed in each stanza. B) A poem written to lament someone's death. C) Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into individual parts. D) An Italian form consisting of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines each with no definitive structure or rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nineteen-line poem divided into five three line (tercet) stanzas and ending with a four-line stanza (quatrain), with a regular rhyme scheme and two refrains echoed in each stanza. 19. A trochee follows which pattern of stress? A) Stressed, unstressed. B) Unstressed, stressed. C) Unstressed, unstressed, stressed. D) Stressed, unstressed, unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stressed, unstressed. 20. Repetition within consonants at the end of words A) Alliteration. B) Speaker. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. ← 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