Poetry Terms Quiz 1

What is a stanza in poetry?

• A four line stanza

• A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• A six line stanza

• A pair of lines that may or may not rhyme

What is a quatrain?

• A six line stanza

• A pair of lines that may or may not rhyme

• A four line stanza

• A 14 line poem

What is a sestet?

• A four line stanza

• A six line stanza

• A 14 line poem

• A poem addressed to a particular person

What is a couplet?

• A pair of lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem

• A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• A four line stanza

• A six line stanza

What is a sonnet?

• A poem addressed to a particular person

• A 14 line poem

• A six line stanza

• A four line stanza

What is an ode?

• A 14 line poem

• A poem usually addressed to a particular person, object, or event

• A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• A pair of lines that may or may not rhyme

What is a rhyme scheme?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• Exaggeration

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

What is a simile?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A comparison without using like or as

• Exaggeration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A comparison without using like or as

• Exaggeration

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

What is hyperbole?

• Exaggeration

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea