This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 119 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 119 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is an example of simile? A) She is a fraud. B) He is a joker. C) Her voice is like an angel. D) Her voice gets on my nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her voice is like an angel. 2. Is the repetition of consonant sounds at thebeginnings of words A) Alliteration. B) Ode. C) Tone. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. Which one is NOT an example of a metaphor? A) The grass is green and the sky is blue. B) Franklin has a heart of gold!. C) Mary's voice is music to my ears. D) He's a walking encyclopedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The grass is green and the sky is blue. 4. Read the following line: "Warm tears rolled down my cheeks." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal? A) Sense of hearing. B) Sense of smell. C) Sense of taste. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sense of touch. 5. Rhyme that occurs on the end of the line A) Slant rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 6. The central or main idea of the poem is ..... A) Form. B) Imagery. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 7. A single line in poetry. A) Verse. B) Free verse. C) Stanza. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 8. A title given to an outstanding U.S. poet by the Library of Congress, usually for one or two years A) Personification. B) Elegy. C) Line break. D) Poet laureate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poet laureate. 9. ..... is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing. A) Mood. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 10. A ..... poem is in the shape of its topic. A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Concrete. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 11. Sensory Language A) Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. B) Writing that is not meant to be taken literally. C) An indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance. D) Use of words that imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. 12. A group of words in a row. A) Form. B) Meter. C) Couplet. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 13. A literary work written in verse format A) Tone. B) Narrative Poem. C) Imagery. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poem. 14. A comparison of two things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Love is a tornado. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 16. What is end rhyme? A) The pattern of rhyme with other lines in a poem or stanza. B) The rhyming words within 1 line of poetry. C) The rhyming words at the end of two or more lines. D) This is created by words that have different beginning sounds but whose ending sound the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rhyming words at the end of two or more lines. 17. A literary genre characterized by rhythmical patterns of language A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Fiction. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 18. Which term means comparing two unlike things using like or as? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Rhythm. B) Cesura. C) Alliteration. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 20. Narrative poems are poems that A) Talk about nature. B) Tell a story. C) Celebrate a person. D) Give detailed imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tell a story. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books