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Hey Poetry Lovers! Take This Quiz!

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1 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Poetry is a form of __________ that uses aesthetic and rhythm qualities of language.


Fiction

Journalism

Literature

2 Question
30 seconds
Q.

What is the other name for poetry?


Prose

Verse

Song

3 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Someone who writes a poetry is called ________.


Poet

Poem

Verser

4 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Lines that are grouped together in a poem are called a ___________.


Paragraph

Stanza

Strophe

5 Question
30 seconds
Q.

How do you call the rhythm of a poem?


Yard

Gaj

Meter

6 Question
30 seconds
Q.

What mania is said to be an obsessional enthusiasm for writing poetry?


Metromania

Poetromania

Poemania

7 Question
30 seconds
Q.

An Indian epic poem which has around 1.8 million words and is named ____________.


Bhagavad Gita

Mahabharata

Ramayana

8 Question
30 seconds
Q.

A type of poetry which narrates heroic adventures and actions.


Tragedy

Epic

Sonnet

9 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Which day is observed as the World Poetry Day?


March 21

September 2

November 24

10 Question
30 seconds
Q.

One of the most popular forms of writing short poems is the _________.


Flax

Linux

Haiku

11 Question
30 seconds
Q.

A phobia of poetry exists and it’s called __________.


Poetriophobia

Metrophobia

Versophobia

12 Question
30 seconds
Q.

___________ is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.


Blank verse

Ballad stanza

Sonnet

13 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Which of the following is an epic, considered as the oldest poem written in English?


Grendel

Hercules

Beowulf

14 Question
30 seconds
Q.

A __________ poem is a poem that is shaped like the thing it describes.


Descriptive

Shape

Art

15 Question
30 seconds
Q.

A sonnet is a poem that has a particular structure with how many lines?


14

12

8

16 Question
30 seconds
Q.

In a Sonnet, the last two lines are called a __________.


Quatrain

Refrain

Couplet

17 Question
30 seconds
Q.

___________ is the term for a poetic slanging-match, where two poets assail each other in turn with streams of abusive verse.


Fighting

Fyting

Flyting

18 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The study of the meter, rhythm, and intonation of a poem is called __________.


Cadence

Prosody

Tone

19 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The methods for creating poetic rhythm is the same across languages and between poetic traditions.


True

False

20 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Poetry is often separated into lines on a page, in a process known as ___________.


Lineation

Rhythm

Pentameter